Nico Heinze wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Knowledge Seeker
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> There will be no output ... as your program will fail to compile !!
>>
>> ranjan kumar ojha wrote:
>>     
>>> #include<cstdio>
>>> int main()
>>> {
>>>     char *s="\12345s\n";
>>>     print("%d",sizeof(s));
>>>     return 0;
>>> }
>>>
>>> what will be output of above program and why ???? 
>>>       
>
> KnowledgeSeeker,
> if you're complaining about the "return o" instead of "return 0" or
> the "#include <cstdio>", you're of course correct, but this won't help
> Ranjan anyway.
>
>   
No offense intended Nico, but what i wanted to convey to OP is that he 
has not even taken any pains to try the problem first hand.
The groups is for help and not for spoon-feeding.

> Ranjan,
> that depends on the OS you work with and the compiler. Under VMS and
> Windows as well as most Linux installations and many Unix systems, you
> will most probably get a response of 4; under MS-DOS you might get a 2
> or a 4, depending on the compiler.
> On many Unix systems and some Linux and Windows installations you will
> probably get a 8 printed out.
>
> Why do you ask?
> Why haven't _you_ told us what you expect the output to be?
> Is this kind of a joke or interview question?
> Is it meant to see how carefully we read the question (as "sizeof(
> char*)" is printed, not "sizeof (char [])")?
> Or in order to see how well we care for knowledge about the standard
> library?
>
> Regards,
> Nico
>
>
>   

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