Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ...both give the number of chars in the string > without the '\0', as strncmp() wants, > but sizeof() is compile-time. Does this actually change anything? The compiler is able to expand strlen at compile time if the argument is a constant, provided that that builtin strlen isn't disabled. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."