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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof() confusion
Message-ID: <14460@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 14 Nov 90 15:50:12 GMT
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In article <2692@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>If characters are promoted to ints in expressions, ...

But they aren't always.  It depends on the context.
The same is true for conversion of array name to pointer.

>I'm sure K&R, H&S, and the ANSI standard all define these things in
>various places.  But they can only guarantee what things mean, not
>whether the meanings they define will surprise programmers.

A good way to avoid being surprised is to learn what the things mean
before attempting to use them.