From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-29 08:38:18
Dmitry Sychov wrote:
> void main() {
This line is incorrect. main() returns int.
> I understand original code - but it uses
> "is_reference_helper1" and "is_reference_helper2" for the same
> thing - ie to distingwish between fn pointer size and char size but
> this could be done in "one pass" (see my is_ref_fn(..) above)
The original code supports broken compilers.
> Is it just because on some platforms sizeof(char) != 1 ?
sizeof(char) is 1 by definition.
> If yes we can change 'char' to object with size >= sizeof(T&)
> to avoid this.
Types other than char (e.g. int or long) can also have size 1.
Regards,
m
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