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From: jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: problems using sizeof()
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Date: 20 Aug 88 08:50:46 GMT
References: <751@arctic.nprdc.arpa> <8000001@modcomp>
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In article <8000001@modcomp> joe@modcomp.UUCP writes:
>Jeff Siegal (jbs @ fenchurch.mit.edu.UUCP) writes:
>>You can't tell the size of an object from a
>>pointer to it.
>
>Not true for Fortran 77.  The semantics of the language require that the size
>of a character string argument also be passed to a procedure.

Did you READ my article?  I made this exact point in the next
paragraph.  More than just the pointer is being passed.  The length is
being passed separately, although the language hides this.  C doesn't
(have hidden arguments).

Jeff Siegal