sizeof in #if?

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <12685 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
|>In article <12674 at mimsy.UUCP> Chris wrote [a comment about sizeof being a
| keyword, and that footnote 74 points out that keywords do not yet exist].

[ and chris then further agrees that sizeof is not a keyword, but an
  operator instead ]

|
|>As such I would expect that it would function as well in #if as do +,
|>-, etc. Perhaps this should be clarified again, as it was in the 2nd draft.
|
|I agree with the latter sentiment, although I see this as a relatively
|minor issue.  (There are things that the draft seems to say that I find
|even less obvious than this---e.g., Arthur Olson's observations on reserved
|names.)

sizeof has nothing to operate on.  there is no means of specifying the 
datatype or variable whose size is to be determined.

- john.
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