Name

sizeof operator — Size of type operator

Synopsis

               unary-expr := sizeof ( type-id ) | sizeof unary-expr
            

At compile time, the sizeof operator returns the amount of memory required to hold an object whose type is type-id or the type of unary-expr. In the latter case, unary-expr is not evaluated. The size of a type includes any padding that the compiler adds to it, so the size of an array of N elements is always equal to N times the size of a single element.

By definition, sizeof(char) is 1, so you can think of the size of other types as multiples of the size of a character. The expression type is std::size_t.