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From: jsgray@watrose.UUCP
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Subject: Re: gnuplot (is there life after Megamax 1.1?)
Message-ID: <8640@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 17:16:10 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 11 17:16:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 21:46:25 EST
References: <461@cernvax.UUCP> <813@viper.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsgray@watrose.UUCP (Jan Gray)
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Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: gnuplot, megamax, bugs

In article <813@viper.UUCP> john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley) writes:
>In article <461@cernvax.UUCP> jmg@cernvax.UUCP () writes:
> >In doing this I have found two (more!) bugs in Megamax:-
> >  sizeof("anystring") returns 4 (the size of the pointer!!!!), not 10.
>Excuse me, but this doesn't sound like a bug...  If you take a look at
>K&R page 94, "In fact, any reference to an array is converted by the
>compiler to a pointer to the beginning of the array."  This means you're
>taking sizeof a pointer, which is in fact 4...(Remember, in C a string
>is no different from a null terminated array of characters.)

Excuse me, but it is a bug. K&R p. 188: "When applied to an array, the
result is the total number of bytes in the array."  What sort of consulting
do you do?

Jan Gray    jsgray@watrose    University of Waterloo    (519) 885-1211 x3870