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How does the sizeof operator works?

Please explain why the output of below code is showing s=4 and x=10? void main{ int x=10, s=0; s=sizeof(x=x+20); cout<<s<<" "<<x; }

21st Mar 2019, 7:14 PM
Swati Tripathi
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"x = x + 20" is an expression of type int, so it is 4 bytes. sizeof gets replaced by a constant at compile-time, so the code itself is never executed.
21st Mar 2019, 7:32 PM
Vlad Serbu
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