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From: ch@dce.ie (Charles Bryant)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof() confusion
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.141352.22426@dce.ie>
Date: 16 Nov 90 14:13:52 GMT
References: <2665@cirrusl.UUCP> <2692@cirrusl.UUCP> <1990Nov14.154213.27324@cbnewsj.att.com> <14462@smoke.brl.mil>
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In article <14462@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>...
> there are two distinct uses of sizeof:
>	sizeof unary_expression
>	sizeof ( type_name )

That must make parsing it more difficult than if the parentheses were always
required:
	sizeof (type_name) - 1
since in other contexts "(type_name) - 1" would be an expression containing
a cast.
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Charles Bryant (ch@dce.ie)
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