Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!mhres!jv
From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sizeof(function) - preproposal survey
Message-ID: <1622@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 17 Feb 88 09:55:46 GMT
References: <11801@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Organization: Multihouse N.V., The Netherlands
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Summary: what is the "size of a function"?

In article <11801@brl-adm.ARPA> LINNDR%VUENGVAX.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>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.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What is the length of a function? Its size in bytes? Source lines? Before
or after cpp? Object code? Instructions?

And what use of this length?

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