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From: pjb@dutesta.UUCP (P.J. Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof(function) - preproposal survey
Message-ID: <1077@dutesta.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 88 10:18:21 GMT
References: <11801@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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From article <11801@brl-adm.ARPA>, by LINNDR%VUENGVAX.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:
> 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.
> 

Well I wouldn't know of any code that would get into trouble, but
what the ?!#??? should you want to do with the length of a function??



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