Bit Addressable Architectures

[Chris Torek]

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

Quite wrong.

There *are* compilers that produce the wrong answer for

	sizeof("string")

(the `correct' number is 7), but any compiler that gets sizeof(foo)
above wrong (2 or 4 rather than 16) is so egregiously broken that
it is not worth discussing.
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