What is the o/p of the following C-program?Main(){Char *str[] = { "Frogs"," do", "not", "die", "they", "croak!");Printf("%d %d",sizeof(str),sizeof(str[0]));}

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Mayank Tiwari

Apr 12th, 2006

display = 12 2

Sibabrata behera

Dec 20th, 2006

24,5.it will print this one

Divya Dhankar

Dec 21st, 2006

This is array of pointer and a pointer size 4 bytesso array of pointer which is pointing to 6 stringswill be 24 and the str[0] pointing only one stringso it's size will be 4

Sriram

Apr 22nd, 2007

For me, on a Windows platform it displayed 12,2.
I guess for unix users, the allocation for a string is 4 bytes whereas for Windows its only 2.

adeshgupta
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Oct 15th, 2009

24,4(in unix)

sizeof(str[0])= storage address=inteter=4bytes;
same as sizeof(str)= storage address of 6 =6*4bytes;