Bit Addressable Architectures

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Thu Apr 14 17:28:49 AEST 1988


In article <8646 at eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> major at eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Lou Major) writes:
>char foo[]="This is a test.";
>sizeof (foo) == sizeof (char *)

Since when?

I know that Gould had a bug in their UTX-32 compiler that made it think
sizeof"......"==sizeof(char *), but they fixed that and in any case
it's not the same as your example.  So what gives?

(I don't think the array name is turned into a pointer just because it's
surrounded by parentheses.)



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