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From: wagner@iaoobelix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Does ANSI C have lengthof() ? - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 13-Sep-87 20:30:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 13 20:30:00 1987
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Nf-From: iaoobelix!wagner    Sep 14 01:30:00 1987


I don't expect any preprocessor to know about the sizes of certain
types. This can cause strange and weird confusions if you use cpp e.g.
for CProlog programs (like me) or for other types of non-C text
pre-processing purposes. Knowledge about sizes of data objects
definitely belongs to the semantics of the language C, and cannot be
handled by a generic cpp!

Juergen Wagner,		     (USENET) ...seismo!unido!iaoobel!wagner
("Gandalf")			 Fraunhofer Institute IAO, Stuttgart