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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof a struc field
Message-ID: <1989Oct20.192827.22495@twwells.com>
Date: 20 Oct 89 19:28:27 GMT
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In article <1234@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
: Here's what the standard says (3.3.3.4):
:
: The result is an integer constant.

:                                                          I also really
: wonder why sizeof doesn't return "unsigned int" but I suspect i wouldn't
: like the answer.

Watch that wording!

The quoted material says that sizeof results in an integer
constant, not that it results in a constant of type int.

Sizeof returns something of type size_t, which must be unsigned.
Unsigned of *some* type. It might be unsigned short :-) but I
suspect that the intent was to permit unsigned long.

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