hardcoded constants

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Tue Dec 27 15:27:40 AEST 1988


In article <789 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
[quoting somebody:]
>>Last I heard sizeof("/") == sizeof(char *)
>I don't know who you heard that from, but I suggest you take anything
>else they have to say about C with a grain of salt; it is not true.

Actually, on at least one release of Gould's UTX-32, apparently the C
compiler maintainer decided to "fix" this and their compiler indeed
interpreted all sizeof"..." constructs as sizeof(char*).  Of course we
screamed about this and it was fixed in a later release.



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