Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:56:08 -0800 From: Ed Hall <edhall@screech.weirdnoise.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAX_UID ? Message-ID: <200003140256.SAA07308@screech.weirdnoise.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:54:21 %2B0200." <20000314035420.B17084@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> 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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