Type of expression sizeof(x)

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Sat Sep 23 05:53:57 AEST 1989


In article <145 at bbxsda.UUCP> scott at bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes:
>Somewhere along the way sizeof() became unsigned...
>I hope the ANSI draft doesn't leave this as "implementation dependent".
>Some idiot implementor somewhere will make sizeof() return float.

The Holy Writ (Oct 88 draft) says that the type of sizeof is an unsigned
integral type.
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