2 sizeof - number of bytes required for value
13 This is analogous to the C operator sizeof for the value only.
14 It attempts to assess the number of bytes in memory used to store
15 a value and all of its components. Unlike memsize(x), this
16 builtin does not include the size of the overhead.
18 Unlike size(x), this builtin incldues the trailing \0 byte on the
21 For numeric values, sizeof(x) ignores the demoninator if 'x' is
22 an integer. For complex values, sizeof(x) ignores the imaginary
23 part if 'x' is real. Because the 0, 1 and -1 numeric values are
24 shared static values, sizeof(x) reports such values as having
27 The number returned by sizeof(x) may be less than the actual number
28 used because, for example, more memory may have been allocated for
29 a string than is used: only the characters up to and including the
30 first '\0' are counted in calculating the contribution of the
33 The number returned by sizeof(x) may be greater (and indeed
34 substantially greater) than the number of bytes actually used.
40 the numerical information for a, A[0], A[1], A[2] are stored in the
41 same memory, so the memory used for A is the same as if
42 its 3 elements were null values. The value returned by
43 sizeof(A) is calculated as A were defined by:
45 mat A[3] = {sqrt(2), sqrt(2), sqrt(2)}.
47 Similar sharing of memory occurs with literal strings.
49 For associative arrays, only the value part of the name/value pair
52 The minimum value for sizeof(x) occurs for the null and error values.
55 The results for examples like these will depend to some extent on
56 the system being used. The following were for an SGI R4k machine
59 > print sizeof(null()), sizeof(0), sizeof(3), sizeof(2^32 - 1), sizeof(2^32)
62 > x = sqrt(2, 1e-100); print sizeof(x), sizeof(num(x)), sizeof(den(x))
65 > print sizeof(list()), sizeof(list(1)), sizeof(list(1,2))
68 > print sizeof(list()),sizeof(list(1)),sizeof(list(1,2)),sizeof(list(1,2,3))
71 > mat A[] = {1}; mat B[] = {1,2}; mat C[] = {1,2,3}; mat D[100,100];
72 > print sizeof(A), sizeof(B), sizeof(C), sizeof(D)
76 > obj point P = {1,2,3}; print sizeof(P)
80 It is assumed sizeof(x) will fit into a system long integer.
86 size, fsize, strlen, digits