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Autzoo.1248 net.bugs.v7 utzoo!henry Mon Jan 4 19:16:17 1982 sizeof type botch The following program displays a bug in the V7 C compiler. Whether this should be fixed by revising the documentation or changing the code is a good question.

/* * sizeof is supposed to be semantically an integer constant. It's not, * in the V7 compiler: its type is always "unsigned", which an integer * constant never is. */

#define BIG 20000 /* 40000 / sizeof(int) */

int foo[BIG];

main() { printf("%D == %D (!)\n", 40000, sizeof(foo)); }

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