sizeof(function) - preproposal survey

[Johan Vromans]

In article <11801 at brl-adm.ARPA> LINNDR%VUENGVAX.BITNET at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>I need some help from the readers of comp.lang.c/info-c in preparation
>for making a proposal to X3J11. The gist of my proposal is that the
>sizeof operator, when applied to a function name, would return the
>length of the function rather than the size of a pointer to a function.
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What is the length of a function? Its size in bytes? Source lines? Before
or after cpp? Object code? Instructions?

And what use of this length?

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