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From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Bit Addressable Architectures
Message-ID: <5213@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 88 19:20:19 GMT
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> <2245@geac.UUCP> <8646@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <8646@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>, major@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Lou Major) writes:

Mr. Major asserts that given:
> char foo[]="This is a test.";

then:
> sizeof (foo) == sizeof (char *)
> NOT the number of machine bytes/words those characters take up. (16, for most
> typical installations)

Which is patently absurd.

--j.a.tainter