From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Memory leak.
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 19:30:03 -0700
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Michael Mauch wrote:

> 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.

Correct.  The relevant section of the ANSI C standard is 6.3.3.4:

    The sizeof operator yields the size (in bytes) of its operand, which
    may be an expression or the parenthesized name of a type.  The size
    is determined from the type of the operand, which is not itself
    evaluated.  The result is an integer constant.

Since a variable name is an expression, you don't need parentheses for
it.

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