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		tedunangst on Dec 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to find size of an array in C without sizeof As far as I know, every compiler is badly broken with arrays greater than SIZE_MAX / 2, so this would be the least of your troubles.

pascal_cuoq on Dec 27, 2016 [–]

Since I have it at hand, here is a list of examples of how compilers are broken if an array is larger than SIZE_MAX / 2 (which is called PTRDIFF_MAX in the post):

http://trust-in-soft.com/objects-larger-than-ptrdiff_max-byt...

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