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From: freedman@granite.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: another stupid array/pointer question
Message-ID: <1990Mar2.135645.17274@granite.cr.bull.com>
Date: 2 Mar 90 13:56:45 GMT
Reply-To: freedman@granite.cr.bull.com (Jerome Freedman)
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
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Suppose I have a structure

    struct a {
       char * a_string;
    }

and a structure

    struct b {
	char another_string[80];
    }

 sizeof(struct a) should equal sizeof(char *)

 but what about sizeof(struct b)?
 Is the 80 character array included in the size of struct b or
 is b.another_string a pointer into somewhere  where there is
 allocated space - is this implementation defined?

  I realize this might be a "dumb" question but not as dumb as if
I didn't ask it.

                                     Jerry Freedman, Jr