据我所知，这是基于内存地址的大小。所以在一个32位地址方案的系统上，sizeof将返回4，因为那是4个字节。

即使是在普通的x86 32位平台上，你也可以得到不同大小的指针，试试这个例子:

struct A {};

struct B : virtual public A {};

struct C {};

struct D : public A, public C {};

int main()
{
    cout << "A:" << sizeof(void (A::*)()) << endl;
    cout << "B:" << sizeof(void (B::*)()) << endl;
    cout << "D:" << sizeof(void (D::*)()) << endl;
}

在Visual c++ 2008中，指向成员函数的指针的大小分别为4、12和8。

Raymond Chen在这里讲过。

不，指针的大小可能因架构而异。有很多例外。

从技术上讲，C标准只保证sizeof(char) == 1，其余的取决于实现。但在现代x86架构(例如Intel/AMD芯片)上，这是相当可预测的。

You've probably heard processors described as being 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, etc. This usually means that the processor uses N-bits for integers. Since pointers store memory addresses, and memory addresses are integers, this effectively tells you how many bits are going to be used for pointers. sizeof is usually measured in bytes, so code compiled for 32-bit processors will report the size of pointers to be 4 (32 bits / 8 bits per byte), and code for 64-bit processors will report the size of pointers to be 8 (64 bits / 8 bits per byte). This is where the limitation of 4GB of RAM for 32-bit processors comes from -- if each memory address corresponds to a byte, to address more memory you need integers larger than 32-bits.

在windows 32位机器上的Turbo C编译器中，指针和int的大小为2字节。

所以指针的大小是编译器特定的。但一般大多数编译器实现为支持32位4字节指针变量和64位8字节指针变量)。

所以指针的大小在所有机器上都是不一样的。

The size of the pointer basically depends on the architecture of the system in which it is implemented. For example the size of a pointer in 32 bit is 4 bytes (32 bit ) and 8 bytes(64 bit ) in a 64 bit machines. The bit types in a machine are nothing but memory address, that it can have. 32 bit machines can have 2^32 address space and 64 bit machines can have upto 2^64 address spaces. So a pointer (variable which points to a memory location) should be able to point to any of the memory address (2^32 for 32 bit and 2^64 for 64 bit) that a machines holds.

由于这个原因，我们看到指针的大小在32位机器中是4字节，在64位机器中是8字节。