sizeof a struc field

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <7653 at cdis-1.uucp>, tanner at cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:

|  Remember that sizeof() is a compile-time operation.  Do we expect
|  the compiler to do flow analysis to determine whether we are feeding
|  a valid pointer into a sizeof() expression?

  Why should flow analysis be needed? If the pointer is defined, call it
p, then:
	sizeof(p)	sizeof a pointer to a {type}
	sizeof(*p)	sizeof an object of {type}
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