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From: leo@atcmp.nl (Leo  Willems)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: sizeof in class declaration
Keywords: sizeof declaration
Message-ID: <533@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 14 Jul 89 20:17:13 GMT
Organization: AT Computing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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This is a question regarding sizeof in a class declaration.
I use the sizeof operator inside a class declaration:

class p{
	int i;
	p p_in_p;		// this is illegal, size of p not yet known
public:
	p(){ i = sizeof(p); }	// is this legal ??

	int z;
};

This example does compile with -our- compiler. But is it legal to take the
size of an object in the objects declaration? 

Thanks.


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