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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re^2: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <1839@piraat.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 19 Dec 88 20:46:44 GMT
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remmers@m-net.UUCP (John H. Remmers) writes:
\...
\	#define  Catspace(s,t)  (strlen(s) + strlen(t) + 1)
\...
\	foo = malloc(Catspace(s,t) + sizeof('/'));

% cat c.c
main()
{
	printf("%d\n", sizeof '/');
}
% cc c.c
% a.out
4
%
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