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From: major@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Lou Major)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bit Addressable Architectures
Message-ID: <8646@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 88 01:08:08 GMT
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> <2245@geac.UUCP> <7578@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1040@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: major@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Lou Major)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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*ahem*
 
char foo[]="This is a test.";
 
sizeof (foo) == sizeof (char *)

NOT the number of machine bytes/words those characters take up. (16, for most
typical installations)