Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <9234@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Dec 88 05:27:40 GMT
References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM> <1988Dec21.133910.23182@ateng.ateng.com> <77@attibr.UUCP> <789@auspex.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 10

In article <789@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
[quoting somebody:]
>>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.

Actually, on at least one release of Gould's UTX-32, apparently the C
compiler maintainer decided to "fix" this and their compiler indeed
interpreted all sizeof"..." constructs as sizeof(char*).  Of course we
screamed about this and it was fixed in a later release.