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From: arrom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <410@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 88 19:51:50 GMT
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Reply-To: arrom@aplcen.UUCP (Ken Arromdee (600.429))
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>How about sizeof('\0') is equal to the size of an integer, which is
>unlikely to be 1?
>Remember, in C, character constants are integer constants.

I was under the impression that "sizeof" is done at compile time and isn't
really a function, so this would correctly return 1.
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"Thinking small is seeing your bus on the other side of the street, and
           wishing you could teleport across to catch it."

--Kenneth Arromdee (ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP, arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu,
	g49i0188@jhuvm.BITNET) (not arrom@aplcen, which is my class account)