Re: suggestion for AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 19, 2000, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva writes:
>> >                    [The number of bytes in a `]$1['.])
>> ^^^^^ chars, actually
>> 
>> sizeof(char) == 1 always holds, but it doesn't have to be a byte.

> K&R1 says:

It's outdated.  The C and the C++ standards specify that
sizeof(char)==1, but a char can be larger than a byte.

> In any case, "the number of chars in a `long int'" seems
> unnecessarily confusing.

Indeed.  How about ``The size of a `long int', as computed by sizeof''.

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