From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Musenet@pineight.8m.com>
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Subject: Re: sizeof() but nothing to do with sizeof( some_structure )
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"Pablo M. Dotro" <pyd AT sion DOT com> wrote:
> AFAIK, sizeof() is an operator, not a function,
> so it is not in any header files....
> Common sense would tell it returns an int... but I am not sure... This
> should be in the docs somewhere, or, if not, may be is in K&R....

ANSI C says that sizeof() returns a size_t, which is
implementation-#defined.


Damian Yerrick