Hi All,
When I run the below program in MSVC, I get the output as
1
4
Could you tell me why sizeof 'A' is taken as 4? Is it standard defined
or compiler specific?
Thanks,
Nishu
/*************** *************** ********/
#include<stdio. h>
int main(void)
{
const char ch = 'A';
printf("%d\n", sizeof ch);
printf("%d\n", sizeof 'A');
return 0;
}
/*************** ****/
58  7202 
Nishu wrote:
Hi All,
When I run the below program in MSVC, I get the output as
1
4
Could you tell me why sizeof 'A' is taken as 4? Is it standard defined
or compiler specific?
Because 'A' alone is an int.
Thanks,
Nishu
/*************** *************** ********/
#include<stdio. h>
int main(void)
{
const char ch = 'A';
printf("%d\n", sizeof ch);
printf("%d\n", sizeof 'A');
return 0;
}
/*************** ****/
--
Pietro Cerutti
PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp
On Jul 10, 1:07 am, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
Nishu wrote:
Hi All,
When I run the below program in MSVC, I get the output as
1
4
Could you tell me why sizeof 'A' is taken as 4? Is it standard defined
or compiler specific?
Because 'A' alone is an int.
OK. What is the reason for considering it as int? I think we use
single quotes to say that it is a char.
Thanks,
Nishu
Nishu wrote:
Hi All,
When I run the below program in MSVC, I get the output as
1
4
Could you tell me why sizeof 'A' is taken as 4? Is it standard defined
or compiler specific?
Thanks,
Nishu
/*************** *************** ********/
#include<stdio. h>
int main(void)
{
const char ch = 'A';
printf("%d\n", sizeof ch);
printf("%d\n", sizeof 'A');
return 0;
}
/*************** ****/
As Pietro said, 'A' is considered an int in C, not
a character. This is one of the many inconsistencies of the
language that you must learn by heart.
Why is this?
"Because that's the way it is..." :-)
On 10 Jul, 10:13, Nishu <naresh.at...@g mail.comwrote:
On Jul 10, 1:07 am, Pietro Cerutti wrote:Nishu wrote:
Hi All,
When I run the below program in MSVC, I get the output as
1
4
Could you tell me why sizeof 'A' is taken as 4? Is it standard defined
or compiler specific?
Because 'A' alone is an int.
OK. What is the reason for considering it as int?
Because that's what the standard says it is. The standard calls 'A' an
integer character constant...
I think we use
single quotes to say that it is a char.
No. We use single quotes to denote an integer character constant.
Nishu <na**********@g mail.comwrote:
On Jul 10, 1:07 am, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
Nishu wrote:
Could you tell me why sizeof 'A' is taken as 4? Is it standard defined
or compiler specific?
Because 'A' alone is an int.
OK. What is the reason for considering it as int? I think we use
single quotes to say that it is a char.
For hysterical raisins, the type of a character constant is int. It's
one of the (IMO few) areas where C++ improves on C: in that language,
it's a char. But not, unfortunately, in C.
Richard
Nishu wrote:
On Jul 10, 1:07 am, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
Nishu wrote:
Hi All,
When I run the below program in MSVC, I get the output as
1
4
Could you tell me why sizeof 'A' is taken as 4? Is it standard defined
or compiler specific?
Because 'A' alone is an int.
OK. What is the reason for considering it as int?
Actually it's considered an integer value, not necessarily an int. int
is just a particular integer type. So is short, long, long long etc.
The reason I suppose is a language design choice. By means of the
escape-sequence notation you can specify any arbitrary octal or
hexadecimal value, to encode character values that are not represented
in the source character set.
I think we use
single quotes to say that it is a char.
A sequence of one or more characters enclosed by single quotes is
regarded as a character constant, not a char. If it's a single
character, it's numerical value is the code for that character in the
machine's character set. Multi-character constants are treated in an
implementation defined manner.
On 10 Jul, 10:28, santosh <santosh....@gm ail.comwrote:
Nishu wrote:
On Jul 10, 1:07 am, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
Nishu wrote:
Hi All,
When I run the below program in MSVC, I get the output as
1
4
Could you tell me why sizeof 'A' is taken as 4? Is it standard defined
or compiler specific?
Because 'A' alone is an int.
OK. What is the reason for considering it as int?
Actually it's considered an integer value, not necessarily an int. int
is just a particular integer type. So is short, long, long long etc.
The spec (I'm looking at C89) states that "An integer character
constant has type _int_"...
On Jul 10, 1:37 am, mark_blue...@po box.com wrote:
Because 'A' alone is an int.
OK. What is the reason for considering it as int?
Actually it's considered an integer value, not necessarily an int. int
is just a particular integer type. So is short, long, long long etc.
The spec (I'm looking at C89) states that "An integer character
constant has type _int_"...
OK. Thank you all.
-Nishu
mark_blue...@po box.com wrote:
On 10 Jul, 10:28, santosh <santosh....@gm ail.comwrote:
Nishu wrote:
On Jul 10, 1:07 am, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
Nishu wrote:
Hi All,
When I run the below program in MSVC, I get the output as
1
4
Could you tell me why sizeof 'A' is taken as 4? Is it standard defined
or compiler specific?
Because 'A' alone is an int.
OK. What is the reason for considering it as int?
Actually it's considered an integer value, not necessarily an int. int
is just a particular integer type. So is short, long, long long etc.
The spec (I'm looking at C89) states that "An integer character
constant has type _int_"...
You're right. Thanks for the correction and apologies to the OP. This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics | |
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