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From: inst182@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Type of expression sizeof(x)
Message-ID: <731@tuvie>
Date: 2 Oct 89 13:41:27 GMT
References: <256@servio.UUCP> <145@bbxsda.UUCP>
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In article <145@bbxsda.UUCP> scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:
>
>I hope the ANSI draft doesn't leave this as "implementation dependent".
>Some idiot implementor somewhere will make sizeof() return float.
							    ^^^^^
Why not? If someone would write a C compiler for the HP28 calculators,
which use 8 bit characters and 20 bit pointers, sizeof (void *) would be
2.5 :-).
>
>-- 
>Scott Amspoker
>Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
>(505) 345-5232

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