Type of expression sizeof(x)

[Anton Rang]

In article <256 at servio.UUCP> penneyj at servio.UUCP (D. Jason Penney) writes:

>  It seems that the sizeof() is promoting the expression to be
>unsigned.
>
>Our conversation with DEC re this bug was extremely unhelpful.  They claim that
>the return type of a sizeof() expression is system-dependent.

On my uVAX 3200 with BSD 4.3, the 'cc' compiler defines sizeof() to
return a signed value.  'gcc' defines sizeof() to return an unsigned
value.  Is this defined in the ANSI draft standard?
   
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