Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [linux-pm] [PATCH] ACPI: replace strlen("string") with sizeof("string") -1 | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:19:47 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 22:57 +0000, Daniel Taylor wrote: > Silly question: when did sizeof("string") get changed to be anything > other than the size of the pointer ("string" is, after all, an array > of characters)?
It is since K&R times that way. If you do not know the difference between a pointer and an array (and these are vastly different), go learn something new about C.
Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at
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