What should "sizeof (expression)" return? Why "8" ??

[Henry Spencer]

In article <2976 at arcturus> evil at arcturus.UUCP (Wade Guthrie) writes:
>sizeof (i+r) -- well, here we have to look at the promotion rules for 
>expressions.  On silly compilers (like that on a VAX running VMS),
>all floats get promoted to doubles...

Not too silly, actually, since this behavior was required by the old
C standards (K&R and its immediate descendants).
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