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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof() confusion
Message-ID: <14381@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 7 Nov 90 11:38:58 GMT
References: <9156@latcs1.oz.au>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <9156@latcs1.oz.au> jacob@latcs1.oz.au (Jacob L. Cybulski) writes:
>typedef unsigned char Pattern[8];
>void foo (Pattern x)

Pattern is an array of 8 chars.  x is a pointer to a char.  This is the
way C has been for years.

>The intuition says that sizeof(Pattern) = sizeof(x) regardless of the
>Pattern definition.

Why are you relying on intuition rather than the language definition?

>Now is it the fault of my compiler (THINK C) to give me such a hard time,
>is it my bad C programming style, or is it the ANSI standard which has some
>gaping semantic holes?

I think the problem is your intuition.  THINK C is producing correct results.