linux-kernel - RE: [linux-pm] [PATCH] ACPI: replace strlen("string") with sizeof("string") -1

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Date:	Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:19:47 +0200
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>
To:	Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@....com>
Cc:	"'Alan Stern'" <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Pavel Vasilyev <pavel@...linux.ru>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org" 
	<linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [linux-pm] [PATCH] ACPI: replace strlen("string") with
 sizeof("string") -1

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
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Bernd Petrovitsch                  Email : bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at
                     LUGA : http://www.luga.at

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