• Izik <izik tty64.org> Nov 19 2001
• "Pavel Minayev" <evilone omen.ru> Nov 19 2001

hello

i was just wondering something. in C you hit a dead end when you
trying to get a size of arg that passed as pointer to a function.

for example:
	char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src)

if you trying to pass a static buffer as one of these args
you can't get their size within the function.
most likely you will get sizeof() return as 4.

i am wondering if there is a way that you can guys try make this
process (getting size of pointers (dyanmic) or static within function)

p.s
	for y`all C folks, the only way i figure how to get it
	is to starting walking trough the entire stack.


izik   http://www.tty64.org

"Izik" <izik tty64.org> wrote in message news:3BF9682A.7090901 tty64.org...

 i was just wondering something. in C you hit a dead end when you
 trying to get a size of arg that passed as pointer to a function.

 for example:
 char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src)

 if you trying to pass a static buffer as one of these args
 you can't get their size within the function.
 most likely you will get sizeof() return as 4.


In C, you'd probably want to use strlen(). =)

In D, use dynamic arrays:

    char[] strcpy(out char[] dest, in char[] src)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < src.length; i++)
        {
            ...
        }
    }

Dynamic array in D is much like a pointer which knows
size of memory block it points to.