[comp.lang.c] Re^2: total space of a string

maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (12/22/88)

kyriazis@rpics (George Kyriazis) writes:
\"/" is a pointer to a string containing a '/' and a '\0'.  Therefore
\it seems to me that sizeof "/" will return the same value as 
\sizeof( char * ).  
\Comments??

% cat c.c
main()
{
	printf("%d\n", sizeof "let's try out before we post");
}
% cc c.c
% a.out
29
%

Aha! sizeof(char *) == 29
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