hardcoded constants

[Chris Torek]

>>sizeof('\0') is equal to the size of an integer ....
>>Remember, in C, character constants are integer constants.

In article <410 at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> arrom at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu
(Ken Arromdee) writes:
>I was under the impression that "sizeof" is done at compile time and isn't
>really a function, so this would correctly return 1.

sizeof is indeed not a function, yet sizeof('\0') is the same as
sizeof(0) and sizeof(int), which are usually not the same as sizeof(char).
The second `>>' line above is the key: the type of '\0' is int, not char.
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