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From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: sizeof in #if?
Message-ID: <4543@rpp386.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 05:32:34 GMT
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Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
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In article <12685@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
|>In article <12674@mimsy.UUCP> Chris wrote [a comment about sizeof being a
| keyword, and that footnote 74 points out that keywords do not yet exist].

[ and chris then further agrees that sizeof is not a keyword, but an
  operator instead ]

|
|>As such I would expect that it would function as well in #if as do +,
|>-, etc. Perhaps this should be clarified again, as it was in the 2nd draft.
|
|I agree with the latter sentiment, although I see this as a relatively
|minor issue.  (There are things that the draft seems to say that I find
|even less obvious than this---e.g., Arthur Olson's observations on reserved
|names.)

sizeof has nothing to operate on.  there is no means of specifying the 
datatype or variable whose size is to be determined.

- john.
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