Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
No, unless applied to a variable length array, sizeof is a compile-time operator.
Not from my experience

Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
You did say "all systems"
Plus it is still good to bother since 8 is a magic number whose meaning is expressed clearly as CHAR_BIT.
Precisely why I'm trying to program this around the worst case scenario where nothing is available