Re: Another Understanding Pointers Question

From: Leor Zolman (leor_at_bdsoft.com)
Date: 05/11/04 

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 01:34:55 GMT

On Tue, 11 May 2004 01:56:17 +0100, Materialised <Materialised@privacy.net>
wrote:

>I have taken all the people who replied comments to heart, and I am glad
>for your feadback.
>What I dont understand is what is wrong with sizeof(char)? True char may
>be defined as 1 on most architectures. But does the way I have
>referenced it require extra CPU useage or something?
>
>Sorry if thats a dumb question..

Not dumb at all. The Standard spells it out as follows (6.5.3.4/3):

"When applied to an operand that has type char, unsigned char, or signed
char, (or a qualified version thereof) the result is 1."

So sizeof(char) is 1, period. Which makes writing it out a bit redundant,
that's all.
        -leor 

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