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From: edward@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Edward Wang)
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Subject: Re: Bit Addressable Architectures
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Date: 14 Apr 88 10:28:41 GMT
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 In article <8646@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> major@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Lou Major) writes:
 >
 >*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)

 This is just plain false.