[LC++]Size of structure pointer/array

[Paul Carter]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:48:37PM -0500, Paul Carter wrote:
> All arrays are passed as pointers. "is" by itself evaluates to a pointer
> to the first element of the array. So when the function is called, the
> address of the first element is assigned to the "i" parameter.
> 
> sizeof(is) = 9*3 = 27, since "is" is an array
Oops, my math is wrong here, it would be 9*4 = 36 of course

> however the sizeof(i) = 4, since it is just a pointer
> 
> (assuming int is 32-bits)
> 
> -- 
> Paul Carter [carterp at acm.org] [http://www.drpaulcarter.com/]


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