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From: ericr@hpvcla.UUCP
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Subject: Re: gnuplot (is there life after Megamax 1.1?)
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Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 10:22:25 EST
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> In doing this I have found two (more!) bugs in Megamax:-
>
>  sizeof("anystring") returns 4 (the size of the pointer!!!!), not 10.

A literal string IS a pointer, so the sizeof did return the correct
value.  This is why you can do things such as:

char *pt;

pt = "String";

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