size_t
david.f.prosser
dfp at cbnewsl.ATT.COM
Tue Jun 20 07:20:32 AEST 1989
In article <934 at tukki.jyu.fi> tarvaine at tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes:
>What exactly does pANS say about size_t? In Turbo C 2.0 it is
>defined as unsigned int in all memory models, yet in huge model
>array indices are long. Is this a bug?
>(If not, what is size_t good for, anyway?)
>--
>Tapani Tarvainen BitNet: tarvainen at finjyu
>Internet: tarvainen at jylk.jyu.fi -- OR -- tarvaine at tukki.jyu.fi
Section 4.1.5 of the pANS:
The types [defined in <stddef.h>] are ...
size_t
which is the unsigned integral type of the result of the sizeof
operator ...
It is also defined in <stdio.h>, <stdlib.h>, <string.h> and <time.h>.
Dave Prosser ...not an official X3J11 answer...
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