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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Using sizeof() on a parameter array
Message-ID: <1991May25.124405.20091@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 25 May 91 12:44:05 GMT
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Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <WORLEY.91May20111036@sn1987a.compass.com>, worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) writes:

>     struct dummy { char a[80]; };

>     void test(struct dummy param) {
> 	    printf("sizeof(param) = %d\n", sizeof(param));
>     }

> will print 80 as expected!

Or possibly more, if the compiler chooses to pad the structure :-)

(For example, if every object is rounded up to a power of two, as I
recall someone, ages ago, saying some twisted machine did....)

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