size_t
Geoff Rimmer
geoff at cs.warwick.ac.uk
Wed Jun 21 10:10:05 AEST 1989
In article <845 at cbnewsl.ATT.COM> dfp at cbnewsl.ATT.COM (david.f.prosser) writes:
> 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>.
Does this mean that size_t should be a #define rather than a typedef?
If it were a typedef, and I #include <stdio.h> AND <stdlib.h> (which
is a perfectly reasonable thing to do!), I would get errors.
> Dave Prosser ...not an official X3J11 answer...
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