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In article <49726@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
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>Still looking for a C function that accepts a hetrogeneous type, how
>about, in C, the sizeof "function"?  It can accept types and variables
>that I have declared in C that the compiler-writers could not have
>anticipated me declaring in any important sense.  It does not deal in
>any way with function pointers. At any time in my program, I can pass
>it a variable containing any expressible value, and it will return
>the number of bytes that that value requires to be stored.  That I can
>not pass is an expression, but only a variable, is a restriction
>that I don't understand (except on ease-of-compiler-implementation
>grounds).
>

The sizeof "function" is resolved completely at compile time (simple
lookup in the type information that the compiler (at whatever pass)
has determined to find the physical size).

>If you wish to say it doesn't count because it isn't a real function
>but rather is built into the compiler, I will merely take this as one
>of the advantages of dynamic typing: one doesn't need to kludge
>function-like things into the compiler merely because the user cannot
>do it him/herself.

Would be nice if it occured at run-time, though (makes functions a lot
more general :-)

>                             -- Darren
>

Lewis Bruck
lbruck@eng.umd.edu