sizeof command in c

[tarasasanka]

hi,
in a small program i just typed


printf("%d", sizeof("3"));

i got output 2

can any one explain about this?

[r035198x]

hi,
in a small program i just typed


printf("%d", sizeof("3"));

i got output 2

can any one explain about this?

Hi and welcome to TSDN. This is a C question and so I'll move it to that forum.
What are your guesses as to the output?

[Meetee]

hi,
in a small program i just typed


printf("%d", sizeof("3"));

i got output 2

can any one explain about this?

Here you want the size of int which is 2. Integer has size of 2 bytes. Different data types has different sizes.

Regards

[svlsr2000]

Here you want the size of int which is 2. Integer has size of 2 bytes. Different data types has different sizes.

Regards

here "3 " is treated as string constant with null termination not integer. so u have 2 characters '3' and null hence the size is two.
Now a days most of the compiler uses 4 bytes for int and it depends on what standard they use.

[Meetee]

here "3 " is treated as string constant with null termination not integer. so u have 2 characters '3' and null hence the size is two.
Now a days most of the compiler uses 4 bytes for int and it depends on what standard they use.

Yes, size of integer is compiler dependent. I took 3 as integer but you r right :)

[HEMANTHPG]

Its a string ("3")

so we have 2 char data type

one is '3' and another is '\0' since its a string (strings ends with '\0')


totally you will get its size as 2

[Avi23]

i dont think it works on this way.

As the Sizeof "int" tend to be the natural word size of the processor.
If ur processor is of 16-bits, then sizeof (int) will return 2, n if it is of 32 bits then sizeof (int ) will return 4 .

[Silent1Mezzo]

i dont think it works on this way.

As the Sizeof "int" tend to be the natural word size of the processor.
If ur processor is of 16-bits, then sizeof (int) will return 2, n if it is of 32 bits then sizeof (int ) will return 4 .

Notice the difference between
sizeof(3);
AND
sizeof("3");

The first case its sizeof(int) in the second it's not