Re: C Interpreter and sizeof operator

In article <438ce9a7$0$11070$e4fe514c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Skarmander <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You can try and fudge this in cases where the application cannot possibly
> trip over the wrong size, but it's tricky to do this without violating the
> standard, and in an interpreter it's very unlikely to be of any value. Just
> pick a constant size for integers (4 bytes happens to be a very common one).

So if I write

long long i;
char array [100];

for (i = 0; i < 100; ++i) array [i] = i;

the compiler is free to use 1, 2, 3, 4 or any other number of bytes for
i, because it doesn't make any difference to the code. The compiler is
allowed to cheat, as long as you cannot detect that it cheats.
.

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