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From: wolfe@mprvaxa.UUCP (Peter Wolfe)
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Subject: Re: sizeof "string"
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 11:04:30 EST
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Of course you got the size of a pointer as a result of doing sizeof "string".
"string" is in fact a "pointer" to a constant string.  I believe that sizeof
is the only portable way to dtermine how large data types (eg. char's) are in C.
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    Peter Wolfe
    Microtel Pacific Research
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