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From: ron@brl-sem.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof "string"?  multi-line macro usage?
Message-ID: <349@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 13-Jul-86 20:04:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-sem.349
Posted: Sun Jul 13 20:04:00 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jul-86 07:25:49 EDT
References: <343@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <343@vu-vlsi.UUCP>, colin@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Colin Kelley) writes:
> Question 1.
> 
> Is it (portably) legal for sizeof to operate on a string constant?
Yes, "A string is a sequence of characters surrounded by double quotes
[and] has type 'array of characters.'" and "[Sizeof] when applied
to an array, the result is the total number of bytes in the array."
Hence,
	sizeof "foo"
should return 4.