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Old May 4th, 2008, 11:19 AM   #5
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Re: sizeof question

Yes. You can't "use it on a pointer" because the compiler doesn't know the size of its array in advance. If you need the size of a dynamically allocated array, or a pointer to an array, you need to keep track of the size yourself.
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