Comment by sweeter
1 year ago
Wouldn't it return the size of the pointer? I would guess it's exclusively used to handle architecture differences
1 year ago
Wouldn't it return the size of the pointer? I would guess it's exclusively used to handle architecture differences
Strictly speaking, or maybe just the way I personally think of it, sizeof doesn't return anything. It's not a function, so it doesn't return at all. (At least, not at run time.)
Nitpicking aside, the result of sizeof(*src) would be the size of the object at which the pointer points. The type of that result is size_t. That's what makes this code from the lesson I quoted invalid:
*sizeof(*src)
That first asterisk tries to dereference the result of sizeof as though it were a pointer, but it's a size_t: an unsigned integer type. Not a pointer.
Yea but that first asterisk is incorrect
Is there an echo in here? ;)
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