... C builtin functions?

[Ray Lubinsky]

> >C has standard built-in functions????
  
> Well, how about sizeof(foo)?
> 
> It looks like a function invocation, and is known and understood
> by the compiler...

The thing is, sizeof() evaluates to a constant at run time, just like
'c'<<3  or  BUFSIZ  .  That makes it a pretty trivial function.  All it
really does is give you a portable, automatic facility for referring to
system dependencies.
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Ray Lubinsky	University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science
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