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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bit Addressable Architectures
Message-ID: <877@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 09:20:54 GMT
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> <2245@geac.UUCP> <8646@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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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)

Wrong.  The answer *is* 16.  This is one of the few cases where
foo and &(foo[0]) are different.  I _tried_ this to make sure I was right.
That's always a good idea.