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From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: sizeof in #if?
Message-ID: <4645@rpp386.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jul 88 00:23:45 GMT
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Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
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In article <12713@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <4543@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>>In article <12685@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>[ and chris then further agrees that sizeof is not a keyword, but an
>>  operator instead ]
>
>I did not say that.  I said that sizeof is both a keyword *and* an
>operator.

my apologizes, that should have read

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

my statement about CPP not being about to perform the sizeof() operation
still stands.  data types do not exist at that phase of the translation,
and hence, neither do data type or variable sizes.
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