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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re^2: total space of a string (was: hardcoded constants)
Message-ID: <1843@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 21 Dec 88 16:55:32 GMT
References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM> <9134@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1988Dec13.172306.16195@utzoo.uucp> <5146@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1988Dec15.190331.2986@utzoo.uucp> <33604@think.UUCP> <1827@solo11.cs.vu.nl> <29@rpi.edu>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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kyriazis@rpics (George Kyriazis) writes:
\"/" is a pointer to a string containing a '/' and a '\0'.  Therefore
\it seems to me that sizeof "/" will return the same value as 
\sizeof( char * ).  
\Comments??

% cat c.c
main()
{
	printf("%d\n", sizeof "let's try out before we post");
}
% cc c.c
% a.out
29
%

Aha! sizeof(char *) == 29
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