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>>In doing this I have found two (more!) bugs in Megamax:-
>>
>>  sizeof("anystring") returns 4 (the size of the pointer!!!!), not 10.
>
>Excuse me, but this doesn't sound like a bug...  If you take a look at
>K&R page 94, "In fact, any reference to an array is converted by the
>compiler to a pointer to the beginning of the array."  This means you're
>taking sizeof a pointer, which is in fact 4...(Remember, in C a string
>is no different from a null terminated array of characters.)


	Wrong, it should be 10.  Remember that sizeof() is special when it
comes to arrays.  sizeof() always returns the effective storage.

	char array[32];
	char *ptr;

	sizeof(array)		-result had better be 32

	The same goes for strings...

	sizeof("hello")		-result had better be 6 (it includes the \0)

	But pointers, on the other hand...

	sizeof(ptr)		-result is 4


			-Matt