From: Cherniavsky Beni <cben AT crosswinds DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: calculating size (like sizeof in TurboC++)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 16:21:07 +0200
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Steamer wrote:
> 
> Kurt Aistinger wrote:
> 
> > I recently started programming with djgpp+allegro and now I'd like to know
> > what function djgpp provides for calculating the size of a variable ( like
> > sizeof()).
> 
> The sizeof operator is standard C, so DJGPP supports it.
> 
> S.

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).
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Beni Cherniavsky <cben AT crosswinds DOT net>
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