We are talking about a language that goes so far as to make sure it functions on systems where the size of a byte is not 8, or where memory is not necessarily linearly addressed. People tend to forget how shockingly flexible standard-compliant C++ code actually is.
I get that, but there's also precedent for cutting ancient things loose. Both C and C++ have finally decided to specify that signed integers are two's complement: https://twitter.com/jfbastien/status/989242576598327296?lang... Also trigraphs are gone in C++17.
