In C, why is sizeof(char) 1, when ‘a’ is an int?

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In C ‘a’ is an integer constant (!?!), so 4 is correct for your architecture. It is implicitly converted to char for the assignment. sizeof(char) is always 1 by definition. The standard doesn’t say what units 1 is, but it is often bytes.

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