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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.lang.c
Subject: Re: structured assembler (BASIC)  [Really: C builtin functions?]
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Date: Thu, 10-Apr-86 11:55:28 EST
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In article <202@chronon.UUCP> eric@chronon.UUCP (Eric Black) writes:
>Well, how about sizeof(foo)?
>
>It looks like a function invocation, and is known and understood
>by the compiler...

Rong.  "sizeof" comes in two flavors:
	sizeof <type-cast>
	sizeof <object>

In the first case, the parentheses belong to the <type-cast>,
not to the sizeof syntax; in the second case, surrounding the
<object> with parentheses is not usually necessary:

	int	array[20];

	... sizeof array ...