Bit Addressable Architectures

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <8646 at eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> major at eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Lou Major) writes:
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| char foo[]="This is a test.";
|  
| sizeof (foo) == sizeof (char *)
| 
| NOT the number of machine bytes/words those characters take up. (16, for most
| typical installations)

Excuse me? Not on any machine I've ever seen, or in any standard I've
ever read. foo is an array, not a pointer. What you said would be true
if the declaration was:
	char *foo = "This is a test";

I've moved followup to comp.lang.c
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