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From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portability vs. Endianness
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Date: 14 Mar 91 01:47:48 GMT
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In article <1991Mar13.164840.20615@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <3005@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>#if (((sizeof long)%(sizeof char)) == 0)	/* even-numbered modulus */
>
>Bleep.  Error.  At least, it won't do what you think.  "sizeof" is not an
>operator in #if; it is just another unknown identifier.

I'll just mumble something here about "meta-code"
and try not to look too guilty...

And yes, that's been around here once or twice before, too.

>Incidentally, that expression is guaranteed to be true anyway, because
>sizeof char ==== 1.  ("====" is the "emphatically equal to" operator. :-))

Yeh.  I never were good about making my antecedents agree
with its objects...

				--Blair
				  "Pay no attention to the man
				   behind the curtain, a-mundo."