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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <1797@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 88 19:35:36 GMT
References: <2636@m2-net.UUCP> <1104@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <1104@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
<foo =  malloc( strlen(s) + strlen(t) + sizeof('\0'));
<Tells it all.  And keeps the reader on track, not grepping around
<for macros.

But doesn't sizeof('\0') return sizeof(int), instead of sizeof(char)?
Remember, the integral promotions are being done.