sizeof(type)

Edgar Fuß <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.userlevel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
May I use the wisdom of this list for a question that is not NetBSD-related?

Why does C's sizeof operator need parentheses when applied to a type?

A colleague argued that this resembles the typecast syntax (like typecasting 
nothing to the type in question).
I suspect some ambiguity without the parentheses, but I fail do make up one.
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