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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:28:04 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        des@ofug.org
Cc:        keramida@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/ln & WARNS=5
Message-ID:  <20020715.092804.90381918.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpn0st6mjc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <20020715114437.GA51994@hades.hell.gr> <20020715.090542.07693309.imp@bsdimp.com> <xzpn0st6mjc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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In message: <xzpn0st6mjc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
            Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes:
: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
: > : > There are two different cases - one is "sizeof(type)" which requires
: > : > parentheses, the other is "sizeof variable" which doesn't.  In the
: > : > latter case, the rule about avoiding unnecessary parentheses applies.
: > That's not always the case.  sizeof type always works too.
: 
: No, "sizeof type" is a syntax error in C89 and C99.

In any event, sizeof(var) is the BSD way of saying that.

Warner

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