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From: volpe@camelback.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
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Subject: Re: sizeof() confusion
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Date: 7 Nov 90 23:10:47 GMT
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In article <27498@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
|>`b' is in a value context, but `a' is not, because this puts the value
|>of b into a, but says nothing about the value of a.)  C happens to have
|>about three contexts which are not value contexts: declarations, left
|>hand side of assignment operators (including `i' in `++i' and `i++'),
|>and following `sizeof'.

Also, following "&".

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