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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bit Addressable Architectures
Message-ID: <10422@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 14 Apr 88 14:04:11 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <8646@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> major@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Lou Major) writes:
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| 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)

Excuse me? Not on any machine I've ever seen, or in any standard I've
ever read. foo is an array, not a pointer. What you said would be true
if the declaration was:
	char *foo = "This is a test";

I've moved followup to comp.lang.c
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