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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bit Addressable Architectures
Message-ID: <11062@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 17:38:39 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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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.

Quite wrong.

There *are* compilers that produce the wrong answer for

	sizeof("string")

(the `correct' number is 7), but any compiler that gets sizeof(foo)
above wrong (2 or 4 rather than 16) is so egregiously broken that
it is not worth discussing.
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