sizeof Is an unsigned long

In LP64, sizeof has the effective type of an unsigned long. Occasionally, sizeof is passed to a function expecting an argument of type int, or is assigned or cast to an int. In some cases, this truncation might cause loss of data. For example,

long a[50];
unsigned char size = sizeof (a);

produces the warnings:

warning: 64-bit constant truncated to 8 bits by assignment
warning: initializer does not fit or is out of range: 0x190