What does ‘sizeof (function name)’ return?

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C standard forbids it – when compiled with gcc -pedantic, it produces invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to a function type warning.

However gcc compiles it and returns 1 for sizeof(main), and it is not a size of function pointer.

It seems to be compiler-dependent.

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