[cfe-dev] sizeof(sizeof(...))

[Pierre Habouzit]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:30:59PM +0000, Ted Kremenek wrote:
> Does anyone have any insights on the semantics of expressions of the  
> form sizeof(sizeof(...))?  For example, the following is legal code:
> 
> int baz(int x) {
>   typedef int a[f()];
>   return sizeof (sizeof(a[bar(x)]));
>          + sizeof(sizeof(x));
> }

I don't get the reason why someone would do that, but afaict sizeof is a
size_t (not an unsigned int) so sizeof(sizeof(a[bar(x)])) is just
sizeof(size_t). I don't have my C norm at hand, but at least gcc
believes that sizeof "returns" a size_t since its printf format checker
complains if I use "%d" and definitely wants "%zd".

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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