Re: sizeof on a word-oriented machine

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1989 17:15

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In article <11135@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) writes:
>I think 40 is the most reasonable value for sizeof x.  Is the standard's
>example wrong?  May it be ignored?

As mentioned in 1.4, the examples are technically not part of the standard
and hence should be ignored in the event of conflict.  The question of the
exact correct value of sizeof here looks a bit more involved.
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A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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