Re: [PATCH] Re: propedit on svn:mime-type

Branko ÄŒibej <brane@xbc.nu> wrote:
> Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> >I thought that sizeof("\n") == sizeof(char*).
>
> No, the type of a string literal is a character array, not a character
> pointer. So writing "\n" is semantically equivalent to writing
>
> (char[]){ '\n', '\0' }
>
> if such a thing could be done in C.

Duh, thanks for correcting me. I'm not familiar with the C standards ;
I wonder if this idiom is reasonably portable across compilers.

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Received on Mon Mar 10 18:11:34 2003