Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!rtech!gonzo!daniel
From: daniel@gonzo.UUCP (Daniel Lanier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Character constants
Message-ID: <527@gonzo.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 89 09:47:07 GMT
References: <13068@steinmetz.ge.com> <102@servio.UUCP> <10138@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <1783@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk> <217@skye.ed.ac.uk> <7447@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1113@auspex.UUCP>
Reply-To: daniel@gonzo.UUCP (Daniel Lanier)
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In article <1113@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>Doug Gwyn indicated that one version of a C compiler delivered by one
>vendor decided that
>
>	sizeof "this is a big fat string"
>
>was the same as
>
>	sizeof (char *)
>
>which is simply not correct.  Your simple test program may give the
>wrong answer if your compiler is buggy.

tick-tock, tick-tock, bing!

	Gould UTX 1.2

"I have here in my hand a list of 63 known compiler bugs that walk like a
duck, talk like a duck, and look like a duck, and I want to know what
the administration is going to do about them."

Sometimes you have to name names, or at least feel a compulsive urge...

	Danil




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