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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <9233@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Dec 88 05:17:41 GMT
References: <2636@m2-net.UUCP> <1104@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <267@twwells.uucp> <410@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <15145@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <15145@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>sizeof is indeed not a function, yet sizeof('\0') is the same as
>sizeof(0) and sizeof(int), which are usually not the same as sizeof(char).

We should probably explain also that it's the same as sizeof 0 and
sizeof '\0', but not sizeof int (which is illegal).  Since any C
text should explain this, look it up if you don't understand.