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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: FAQ - malloc array - clarify
Keywords: malloc, Sun, lint
Message-ID: <18032@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 23:41:00 GMT
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Reply-To: karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <15495@drilex.UUCP> dricejb@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson drilex1) writes:
>People here have been blathering on about broken compilers, erroneous lint
>libraries, etc, thinking that 'sizeof()' is returning an int on that machine.
>
>Wouldn't a more reasonable explanation be that 'ncols' is an int, and that
>particular compiler treats 'int * unsigned' as 'int' (or 'long int')?  

There is a well-known implementation where sizeof() returns a signed int.
(Understandable, since K&R 1 didn't say.)  I've never heard of one that thinks
int*uint is signed.  (Which would be harder to defend, since both Classic and
ANSI C agree that it isn't.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint