Unnecessary parentheses (Was: Help: VAX C problem)
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Tue Apr 16 07:33:11 AEST 1991
In article <3176 at oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> sadkins at oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Scott W. Adkins) writes:
>In this case, they do not indicate that one is a function and the other is
>an operator.
sizeof is always a unary operator keyword, never a function name.
It can be validly used in two distinct ways:
sizeof unary_expression
sizeof ( type_name )
Some people put parentheses around the innards of their unary_expression,
but they are not required. (Same as for the operand of "return".)
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