On 08/ 5/13 05:00 PM, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
Thanks for that Alan - I had no idea, and have been looking at lots of C code
lately that has probably has the same mistakes. I will keep an eye on that.

More details/deeper explanations of when sizeof can and cannot work can be
found in:

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/ARR01-C.+Do+not+apply+the+sizeof+operator+to+a+pointer+when+taking+the+size+of+an+array

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming/Pointers_and_arrays#sizeof

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