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From: rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Does C++ 2.0 Emit Following C Construct?
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Date: 12 Oct 89 00:02:25 GMT
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In article <1000032@hpclscu.HP.COM> shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
>> 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)"?

You mean that yours didn't????  Maybe you had better have a look at the
ANSI C (draft) standard.

// rfg