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From: sam@think.COM (Sam Kendall)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: uses of void
Message-ID: <6001@think.COM>
Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 11:03:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: think.6001
Posted: Tue Aug 19 11:03:31 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Aug-86 04:48:04 EDT
References: <277@sdchema.sdchem.UUCP> <86900012@haddock> <3121@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: sam@godot.think.com (Sam Kendall)
Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: sizeof (char) must be 1

In article <3121@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) writes:
>In article <86900012@haddock> karl@haddock writes:
>>The "abstract units" of sizeof() are "char" by definition.  (Too many users
>>have been assuming sizeof(char)==1, so it's official in C++ and ANSI C.
>
>Don't be too sure that this won't change by the time of the final X3J11
>standard.

No way.  Too much code would break if sizeof (char) wasn't 1.  A
nearly infinite set of these would have to be fixed:

	malloc(strlen(s)+1)

Also plenty of uses of sizeof to count chars in a char array, and
other things like this.

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