How does sizeof know the size of the operand array?

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sizeof is interpreted at compile time, and the compiler knows how the array was declared (and thus how much space it takes up). Calling sizeof on a dynamically-allocated array will likely not do what you want, because (as you mention) the end point of the array is not specified.

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