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In article <821@viper.UUCP> john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley) writes:
>In article <639@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
> braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (braner) writes:
> >Yet another bug in Megamax C:
> >
> >	sizeof("a string constant") always yields 4.
> >
> >	(sizeof(s) where s is of type array-of-char works fine.)
> >
> >- Moshe Braner
>
>  As I mentioned before...  This is infact the right way for sizeof to
>work.  ...

What???  I find it difficult to believe this is a subject for argument!
A string constant is a character ARRAY and therefore sizeof returns the
storage taken by the string constant.  If you have an array: int foo[10][10],
sizeof(foo) will return 100 * sizeof(int) despite the fact that foo is a
pointer.  If you don't believe me just run the following program on your
MAINFRAME yourself.

#include	<stdio.h>

main()
{
	printf("sizeof(\"abcdef\") = %d\n", sizeof("abcdef"));
}

This will return 7.

				Eric Pettersen
				pett@cgl.ucsf.edu or ucbvax!ucsfcgl!pett