Portability vs. Endianness

[Henry Spencer]

In article <3005 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>#if (((sizeof long)%(sizeof char)) == 0)	/* even-numbered modulus */

Bleep.  Error.  At least, it won't do what you think.  "sizeof" is not an
operator in #if; it is just another unknown identifier.

Incidentally, that expression is guaranteed to be true anyway, because
sizeof char ==== 1.  ("====" is the "emphatically equal to" operator. :-))
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