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Hi,

I've been wondering. Both the C++ compiler on my macintosh (CodeWarrior)
and GNU C++ (2.6.something) say that the size of an array passed as an
argument to a function is 4, which is the size of a pointer (or
reference).

However, both ARM and some ANSI proposal on the net (the September working
paper?) state:

* When applied to an array, the result is the total number of bytes in the
array.

The ANSI paper also explicitly adds:

* [...] array-to-pointer [...] standard conversions are suppressed on the
operand of sizeof.

What's the verdict? If I have a function

void Add(DataPoint* dp, char v[N])
{
    ... sizeof(v) ...
}

Should sizeof(v) be

a) 4
b) N
c) Another value?

I'm very interested in what the protagonists of (a) have to say...

-- 
        Theo Vosse
        ----------
        Unit for Experimental and Theoretical Psychology
        University of Leiden
        The Netherlands
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