Bit Addressable Architectures

[Tainter]

In article <8646 at eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>, major at eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Lou Major) writes:

Mr. Major asserts that given:
> char foo[]="This is a test.";

then:
> sizeof (foo) == sizeof (char *)
> NOT the number of machine bytes/words those characters take up. (16, for most
> typical installations)

Which is patently absurd.

--j.a.tainter