>>>   Since sizeof() of an array returns the total amount of bytes taken by
>>> an array, if you divide it by the amount of bytes of one element, you get
>>> the total number of elements.
> 
>> This is plain. What surprises me is that sizeof() can give you an 
>> accurate size in the first place.
> 
>   Why wouldn't it? The compiler has to know the size of the array if it
> wants to allocate it in memory.

All that stuff about "C does not know the size of an array at run-time, 
and does not check array bounds". But then, this is from the same books 
that claim that pointers *are* arrays... Certainly if you asked for 
sizeof() on a pointer, you wouldn't get the size of the array it points to.

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