On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:04 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> > Thanks Erik, Sape, and Skip.  That was such a STUPID error, and I thank
> > you all for the extra eyes.  I think it is time for a break and a bowl of
> > tea...
>
> relax.  not stupid, subtle.  it takes vigilance to keep
> sizeof, nelem, strlen, and the number of characters
> straight.
>
> - erik
>
>
And you *can* use sizeof on arrays :-).

Well at least in ANSI/ISO C.  Haven't tried this on plan 9.  :-)

On my mac I get 6 and 8.

#include <stdio.h>

char blah [] = "Hello";
char * blah2 = "There";

int main  () {

        printf("sizeof blah: %ld\n", sizeof(blah));
        printf("sizeof blah2: %ld\n", sizeof(blah2));

}