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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG.
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:09:16 +1200
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On 04/29/11 03:01 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 4/28/2011 10:09 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
>> On 04/29/11 01:50 PM, David Bernier wrote:
>
>>> In any case, with an executable compiled with a C compiler,
>>> there's the function sizeof, which might be useful
>>> in some cases at run time.
>>
>> Being pedantic, sizeof is a compile time operator when used with
>> integral types.
>
>       It's an operator, always.  It's evaluable at compile time for
> any operand, integral or not, except a variable-length array (whose
> element count is not determined until run time).

The context was integral types, I didn't want to venture anywhere near 
VLAs on a cross-post!

-- 
Ian Collins