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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Type of expression sizeof(x)
Message-ID: <1989Sep22.195357.10194@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <256@servio.UUCP> <145@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 19:53:57 GMT

In article <145@bbxsda.UUCP> scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:
>Somewhere along the way sizeof() became unsigned...
>I hope the ANSI draft doesn't leave this as "implementation dependent".
>Some idiot implementor somewhere will make sizeof() return float.

The Holy Writ (Oct 88 draft) says that the type of sizeof is an unsigned
integral type.
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