Re: [evolution-patches] [PATCH]Bug # 58014: cannot add multiple participants for the same category in tasks

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

sizeof a pointer isn't the same as sizeof an array. 
FWIW, sizeof is a compile-time operation, not run-time.

Jeff

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 11:28 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> That doesn't explain why it doesn't work. It only reiterates that it
> doesn't. I was hoping for a more technical explination of why it doesn't
> work on dynamically created arrays or such.
>
> -- dobey
>
> On Enj , 2004-05-06 at 12:32 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > G_N_ELEMENTS() only works on static arrays, eg not dynamically created
> > arrays.
> > 
> > but yea, he certainly doesn't need to run thru the loop twice.
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 12:28 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: 
> > > There's no reason to run through the loop twice, so you don't need to
> > > count the elements first, since you aren't appending to the array and
> > > doing reallocing. You can just do "for (i = 0; cards[i] != NULL; i++)"
> > > instead. Aside from that, why does G_N_ELEMENTS (cards) not work?
> > > 
> > > -- dobey

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