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From: nmm1@cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG.
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:15:19 +0100 (BST)
Date: 2011-04-29T07:15:19+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ipdl1n$dnf$1@gosset.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ipd9oo$kug$1@dont-email.me

In article <ipd9oo$kug$1@dont-email.me>,
Eric Sosman  <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:
>On 4/28/2011 10:09 PM, Ian Collins 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).

It's not just evaluable at compile time, it is evaluated using
only the type and not the value of the expression.  C99 6.5.3.4
paragraph 2.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4dae2a4b$0$55577$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net>
2011-04-28  1:14 ` KISS4691, a potentially top-ranked RNG robin
2011-04-28 11:42   ` e p chandler
2011-04-29  1:50     ` David Bernier
2011-04-29  2:09       ` Ian Collins
2011-04-29  3:01         ` Eric Sosman
2011-04-29  3:09           ` Ian Collins
2011-05-08  7:34             ` Uno
2011-05-11  5:38               ` Marni Zollinger
2011-04-29  6:15           ` nmm1 [this message]
2011-04-29  3:16         ` David Bernier
2011-04-29  2:34       ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2011-04-29  7:04         ` Uno
2011-04-30 10:48           ` robin
2011-05-05  1:12             ` Uno
2011-04-29 15:13         ` Keith Thompson
2011-04-29 17:41           ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2011-04-29 19:53             ` Keith Thompson
2011-05-05 23:38               ` Michael Press
2011-04-29 22:45           ` Seebs
2011-04-30  4:36           ` Randy Brukardt
2011-04-29 22:43       ` Seebs
2011-04-29  9:43     ` robin
2011-05-01 15:31   ` Thad Smith
2011-05-01 19:58     ` Ian Collins
2011-05-02  0:01       ` James Kuyper
2011-05-02  0:42         ` Ian Collins
2011-05-02  2:34           ` James Kuyper
2011-05-02  2:50           ` glen herrmannsfeldt
2011-05-02  4:21       ` Thad Smith
2011-05-02  7:31         ` nmm1
2011-05-23  4:18           ` robin
2011-05-23  7:20             ` robin
2011-05-23  6:52           ` robin
2011-05-23  6:52           ` robin
2011-05-23  6:52           ` robin
2011-05-23  6:53           ` robin
2011-05-23  7:16             ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-28  7:19               ` robin
2011-06-28  8:44                 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-06-28  9:19                   ` Chris H
2011-06-28  9:14                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-28 11:59                   ` robin
2011-06-28 12:16                     ` Chris H
2011-06-28 15:44                       ` Peter Flass
2011-06-28 12:33                     ` James Kuyper
2011-06-28 13:53                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-06-28 22:39                       ` Brian Salter-Duke
2011-06-28 12:32                 ` James Kuyper
2011-06-28 13:03                   ` Chris H
2011-06-28 14:25                     ` James Kuyper
2011-06-28 15:01                       ` Chris H
2011-06-29  0:20                         ` James Kuyper
2011-06-29  8:38                         ` Michael Press
2011-06-28 16:04                 ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-28 16:36                   ` Chris H
2011-06-28 16:51                     ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-29  0:27                       ` James Kuyper
2011-06-29  1:00                         ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-29 16:48                         ` Phil Carmody
2011-06-28 16:52                     ` Joe Pfeiffer
2011-06-28 17:06                     ` David Bernier
2011-06-28 21:11                     ` Gib Bogle
2011-06-29  4:47                       ` Mart van de Wege
2011-07-02  6:49                         ` Gib Bogle
2011-07-02 15:59                           ` Mart van de Wege
2011-07-02 21:57                             ` Gib Bogle
2011-06-29  7:36                       ` nmm1
2011-06-29  9:58                         ` Georg Bauhaus
     [not found] <a82cebe3-cdb9-48af-8080-bca935eeb9b1@l14g2000yql.googlegroups.com>
2010-07-25  0:49 ` Gene
2010-07-26  2:50   ` robin
2010-07-27  5:46 ` robin
2010-07-30 10:46   ` Uno
2010-08-03 10:41     ` robin
2010-08-03 17:15       ` James Waldby
2010-08-03 17:35         ` Dann Corbit
2010-08-03 20:34           ` Peter Flass
2010-08-04  4:20             ` Uno
2010-08-04  8:31           ` robin
2010-08-04  7:56         ` robin
2010-08-05 21:07           ` Uno
2010-08-06 10:11             ` robin
2010-08-09 14:52             ` mecej4
     [not found] ` <i2fir2$op4$1@speranza.aioe.org>
2010-07-27 10:19   ` robin
2010-07-30  8:33     ` Uno
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