From: michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de (Michael Mauch)
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Subject: Re: Memory leak.
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 19:26:00 +0200
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On 4 Oct 1997 22:34:31 GMT, firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
wrote:

> Michael Mauch <michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de> wrote:
> > sizeof is an (unary) operator, not a function, so 
> 
> >   x = sizeof int;
> 
> > is just as valid as 
> 
> >   x = +4;
> 
> Certainly not! Erik was correct; my lack of parenthesis around 'int' -was-
> a typo. Did you test code that does something like "x = sizeof int"? I
> garuntee that gcc will report:
> 
> whatever.c:x: parse error before `int'
> 
> Parenthesis are NOT required around a -variable- when the sizeof operator is
> applied, but they ARE required when it is being applied to a type name.

Yes, you're right. I didn't test it and `sizeof int´ really doesn't
work, whereas `char c; x = sizeof c;´ does. I'm sorry.

Regards...
		Michael