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		icedchai on Dec 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to find size of an array in C without sizeof On a 64-bit platform (anything modern), ptrdiff_t is going to be 64-bit so this will not be an issue (ok, 63-bit... but you get my point.)

mannykannot on Dec 27, 2016 [–]

In this context, the difference between 63 bits and 64 bits is not trivial.

yoklov on Dec 27, 2016 | [–]

Both are bigger than the x64 address space...

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