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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: sizeof on a word-oriented machine
Message-ID: <11649@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Nov 89 01:26:30 GMT
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References: <11135@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <12570032@hpclwjm.HP.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <12570032@hpclwjm.HP.COM> walter@hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray) writes:
>It seems to me the only conclusion is that the dpANS guarantees that
>sizeof(x)==37.

Yes, and I know for a fact from discussion with several "principal members"
of X3J11 that it was intended that the standard guarantee a macro like the
following to work for all conforming implementations:

	#define	Elements( a )	(sizeof a / sizeof a[0])