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

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

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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