C++ is awesome!

(a<b?a:b<c?b:c) = val();

>>37
If I remember the standard correctly, a character is AT LEAST a byte, but is in fact up to the implementation what the actual size is (depending on architecture and whatnot). Of course, it's been a while since I've looked at the standard, so I may be wrong.

>>39
no a char is a byte.
A char might be a 7bit byte, an 8bit byte even a 36bit byte, but it still would be a byte.