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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of    
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David Thompson wrote:
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <ve3wwg@home.com> wrote :
> ...
> > I wasn't talking abuse. On 5 different platforms, the sizeof "ab" could
> > yeild the answers 3,4 or 8, depending upon the platforms chosen ;-)
> > This is not a very good result for such a simple compiler request.
> >
> Not true.  In any conforming implementation of either C or C++
> sizeof "ab" is 3.  Perhaps you meant one of two other things:

Maybe that's now true with the C99 standard. But it is definitely
_not true_ of _many_ existing pre-C99 compilers!

> - David.Thompson 1 now at worldnet.att.net

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