What can be stored in the uint8_t variable?

Question

C++ / C#

In the course of passing the "course" I encountered in one program using the uint8_t variable, but I can not find anywhere what is stored in it. Here is a piece of code where it is initialized:

uint8_t buffer[512];
uint8_t check[4];

Answer 1

uint8_t is an 8-bit unsigned integer. You can see other similar types here .

Answer 2

The variables here are buffer and check, which have a uint8_t array data type.
uint8_t = byte