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In article <2006@ihuxz.ATT.COM> burris@ihuxz.ATT.COM (Burris) writes:
>
>The first response was correct. That's why there's a strlen() function.
>Now if it were as follows:
>
>char	string[ 20 ];
>char	*strpt = "hello";
>
>main()
>{
>	printf( "%d\n", sizeof( string ) );
>	printf( "%d\n", sizeof( strpt ) );
>	printf( "%d\n", sizeof( "hello" ) );
>}
>
>the result would be:
>
>20
>4
>4

As the originator of all of this C(ontroversy) I thought that I ought
to see what happens on our BSD4.2 system. The output of the test program:


20
4
6

The moral is clear: either say what the test program DID produce (on
system xyz with compiler pqr) or risk dropping a clanger.

Moshe did suggest to me a trick which made sizeof work. I forget what
it was.

Two further precisions on Megamax:

1. It is %* which is not accepted in printf statements.

2. Megamax does not like #define statements stuck just anywhere.
   It appears that they must be at the start of the text (I am not
   sure of the exact restrictions, but a perfectly valid gnuplot #define
   of a symbol is rejected.

Also, no getenv for megamax!