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Subject: sizeof(function) - preproposal survey
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Date: 14 Feb 88 08:28:35 GMT
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I need some help from the readers of comp.lang.c/info-c in preparation
for making a proposal to X3J11. The gist of my proposal is that the
sizeof operator, when applied to a function name, would return the
length of the function rather than the size of a pointer to a function.

While this is a change, it is also (probably) an upward compatible extension
that would provide a capability not currently available in C but in keeping
with the "spirit of C" (Let's hear an AMEN, brothers and sisters!) as
this information is generally available in the assembly code that C allows
us to forego.

What I request from the readers of this newsgroup/mailing-list is
feedback if you know of code that this would break. Please reply directly
to me and not to the whole group as I will summarize any interesting
correspondence.

        Thanks,
         David
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