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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Does C++ 2.0 Emit Following C Construct?
Message-ID: <1000032@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 23:27:42 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> Try this little gem (but first make sure that your CC script does *not*
> invoke the GNU C compiler):
> 
> 	int i;
> 	int main ()
> 	{
> 		i = sizeof (main);
> 		return 0;
> 	}

I got perfectly reasonable code from 2.0 (formatting cleaned up):

    int main ()
    {
	_main();
	{
	    i = (sizeof main );
	    return (int )0 ;
	}
    }

Looks kosher. You mean your compiler choked on "(sizeof main)"?
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