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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <1119@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 05:27:01 GMT
References: <77@attibr.UUCP>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <77@attibr.UUCP>, by vch@attibr.UUCP (Vincent C. Hatem):

> 
> Last I heard sizeof("/") == sizeof(char *) - which is almost never 2, and
> NEVER portable.
> 

First I heard sizeof("/") == 2 which is sometimes sizeof(char*), and
ALWAYS portable. 

On my machine, a 68020 based Sun3/60, sizeof(char*) seems to be either
four or seven, depending.

Don't feel bad.  I blew sizeof('\0') bigtime.


% cat foo.c
main()
{
  printf("%d %d\n", sizeof(char*), sizeof ("foobar"));
  exit(0);
}
% cc foo.c
% a.out
4 7