Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site inuxh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!inuxh!stevens From: stevens@inuxh.UUCP (W Stevens) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: sizeof "string" Message-ID: <268@inuxh.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 08:39:12 EST Article-I.D.: inuxh.268 Posted: Tue Jan 31 08:39:12 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Feb-84 16:27:29 EST References: <1623@rlgvax.UUCP> <810@hao.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Div., Indianapolis Lines: 21 On our system (Vax 11/780 running UNIX 5.0, a.k.a. System V), the program: main() { printf("size of \"Hello world!\" is %d\n", sizeof("Hello world!")); exit(0); } prints the value 13. This agrees with K&R page 181: "A string has type 'array of characters' and storage class static ... and is initialized with the given characters." -- Scott Stevens AT&T Consumer Products Laboratories Indianapolis, Indiana, USA UUCP: inuxh!stevens The difficult didn't get done yesterday, so the impossible will have to wait.