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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof and multi-dimensional arrays
Message-ID: <29000@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 91 16:39:37 GMT
References: <1991Jan5.050613.22303@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <fred.663069060@prisma> <28950@mimsy.umd.edu>
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(Two corrections from Karl Heuer)

In article <28950@mimsy.umd.edu> I wrote:
>C has five different `places' in which array identifiers (including []
>and `*') can appear:

`identifiers' is the wrong word (as it happens, it was left over from a
small edit I made in that section).  `Array notations' might be better.

And:
>Incidentally, sizeof can handle values as well as objects: `sizeof 3+4'
>produces the same constant as `sizeof(int)'.

Make that `sizeof(3+4)': otherwise it acts as (sizeof 3) + 4.
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