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From: Uday Karan <uday.karan@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: constant in C
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:03:17 +0530
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Sorry didn't CC to list.

> Therefore you cannot use sizeof(const),  &const etc.

sizeof (CONST) can be done and would return the size of an integral
type that would be able to hold that value, could be 4 for ints or 8
for long ints, if none of these can take up the value (because you're
substitutive constant is insanely large), the compiler would usually
give out a warning (if truncating) or an error straightaway.

- Uday