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I have a piece of C code and I don't understand how the sizeof(...) function works:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
const char firstname[] = "bobby";
const char* lastname = "eraserhead";
printf("%lu\n", sizeof(firstname) + sizeof(lastname));
return 0;
}
In the above code sizeof(firstname) is 6 and sizeof(lastname) is 8.
But bobby is 5 characters wide and eraserhead is 11 wide. I expect 16.
Why is sizeof behaving differently for the character array and pointer to character?
Can any one clarify?