Re: Annotations on K&R II

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From: J. Blustein
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 13:10

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In article <4jr727$h6o@solutions.solon.com> Kurt Watzka
<watzka@stat.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>jamie@csd.uwo.ca (J. Blustein) writes:
[...]
>>     p. 135                 As the text states: sizeof *x is the size of the
>>                            pointer not the x being pointed to.
>
>Do they write that? Sorry, I don't have K&R 2 at hand right now, but
>this is _not_ true. Consider:

     That's right.  I think my note was based on a misunderstanding of
something else I read.  I have changed the annotation to `sizeof is better
defined in A7.4.8 on page 204'.
-- 
Jamie Blustein                                         `Did you say "knives"?'
<jamie@uwo.ca>                                         `*Rotating* knives, yes.'

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