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From: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Auto variable with sizeof == 0
Message-ID: <4097@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 19:23:30 EST
Article-I.D.: utcsri.4097
Posted: Mon Feb  9 19:23:30 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Feb-87 22:42:21 EST
References: <4114@brl-adm.ARPA> <397@mipos3.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <397@mipos3.UUCP> pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) writes:
> [...]  (Remember that sizeof(array) =~ sizeof(element of array)
>times number of elements.  This is approximate because C allows a compiler
>to pack arrays.)

The relationship is exact: sizeof(array)==sizeof( array[0] )*(# of elements).
An array may not be packed in a way which makes this relationship inexact.

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