On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 20:20 -0500, Timothy Flechtner wrote: > wouldn't a pointer be register size?
Depends on the CPU architecture. E.g. some have a mixture of register sizes (especially 8-bit CPUs, but also 16-bit ones). On the PDP11 series an int was typically 16 bits and so was a register, but a pointer would be 32 bits (and so was a long). > >>typedef unsigned char byte; > >>byte word[sizeof(float)]; A float almost never fits into a register (except on the FPU of course), but that expression will get you the numbe of bytes that a float uses in memory, which seems to be what you want. You could also use #define FLOAT_BYTES sizeof(float) Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin Pictures from old books: http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/oldbooks/ IRC (chat) programs: www.ircreviews.org/clients/ _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
