Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: This is marvellous in it's simplicity of interface.
:
: Yet, using sizeof(char) and assuming that it's going to be 1, strikes me
: like a dangerous thing to do. I have never heard of machines where this
: isn't true, but I seem to recall that the comp.lang.c FAQ mentions this
: somewhere. I'll look it up tomorrow, since it's getting too late...
In both C and C++, sizeof(T) is defined to be the size of T in terms of the
size of a char, so by definition sizeof(char) == 1.
You can look it up (for C) at:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q7.8.html
For C++, see section 4.6 of The C++ Programming Language.
-Ed
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