Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <789@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 08:53:46 GMT
References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM> <1988Dec21.133910.23182@ateng.ateng.com> <77@attibr.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Last I heard sizeof("/") == sizeof(char *)

I don't know who you heard that from, but I suggest you take anything
else they have to say about C with a grain of salt; it is not true.  "/"
is an array of "char" with two elements, not a pointer to "char".  In
some contexts, that "array of 'char'" expression gets converted to a
"pointer to 'char'" that points to the array's first member; however,
"argument of the 'sizeof' operator" is not one of those contexts.