From: Cherniavsky Beni <cben AT crosswinds DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: calculating size (like sizeof in TurboC++)
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:49:41 +0200
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Steamer wrote:
> 
> Cherniavsky Beni wrote:
> 
> >
> > It might be useful to emphasize that sizeof(expression) is not a function that
> > can be implemented by any library but an *operator*.  It is computed at
> > *compile time* as a property of the type of the expression (which is never
> > computed).
> 
> This is true in C89/C90.  But note that C99 has variable length arrays,
> and sizeof applied to such an array is computed at execution time.
> Moreover, DJGPP (or rather gcc) already supports this, even though it
> is as yet a long way from being C99-compliant.
> 
> S.

 Thanks for the information, I had no idea about it.  Anyway it's a long
way from a function that can be written in C which seemed to be
misunderstood by Kurt Aistinger.

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Beni Cherniavsky <cben AT crosswinds DOT net>
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