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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <9230@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Dec 88 04:55:02 GMT
References: <2636@m2-net.UUCP> <1104@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <1797@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1797@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>But doesn't sizeof('\0') return sizeof(int), instead of sizeof(char)?

Yes ...

>Remember, the integral promotions are being done.

... but integral promotion has nothing to do with it.  '\0' IS an integer
constant of value 0 and type int, not char.