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From: limes@sun.uucp (Greg Limes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: sizeof behavior (was Bit Addressable Architectures)
Message-ID: <49530@sun.uucp>
Date: 14 Apr 88 17:10:12 GMT
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> <2245@geac.UUCP> <8646@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
Lines: 11
Summary: probably not portable

In article <8646@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>, major@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Lou Major) writes:
> char foo[]="This is a test.";
> sizeof (foo) == sizeof (char *)

Lou, on my machine (Sun 3/60, SunOS 4.0) this is not true;
    sizeof (foo) == sizeof foo == 16
This corresponds with the way I have used sizeof with arrays for
many years now, and in fact the standard unix kernel configuration
files depend on it. Of course, your mileage may vary, but I would like
to hear about any machines where sizeof works the way you state.

-- Greg Limes [limes@sun.com]		frames to /dev/fb