C: Why the output of sizeof ( 'a' ) is 2 and not 1 ?
Why is the output of sizeof ( 'a' ) 2 and not 1?
Character constants in C are of type int, hence sizeof ( 'a' ) is equivalent to sizeof ( int ) (i.e., 2.) Hence the output comes out to be 2 bytes.
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