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From: pfalstad@stroke.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof() confusion
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Date: 9 Nov 90 02:09:19 GMT
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In article <2665@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>        char c;
>        c = 'c';     /* char variable holds char value */
>        printf("sizeof c       = %d\n", sizeof c);
>        printf("sizeof 'c'     = %d\n", sizeof 'c');
>        printf("sizeof (char)  = %d\n", sizeof (char));

It prints:

sizeof c = 1
sizeof 'c' = 4
sizeof (char) = 1

Which is no real surprise if you know that 'c' is not a char.
Character literals are really ints.

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