Ben Bacarisse said:

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> It is probably worth adding the reason one uses an unsigned integer
> type is that shift operations are well-defined on these, and the
> reason one uses unsigned char in particular is that it is guaranteed
> not to have any padding bits.

It is indeed worth adding. Thank you.

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