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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: size_t
Message-ID: <13758@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 19 Jun 89 23:28:06 GMT
References: <934@tukki.jyu.fi>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <934@tukki.jyu.fi> tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) writes:
>What exactly does pANS say about size_t?

It says (among other things) that |size_t| is big enough to hold the size of
the largest declarable object.

>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?

Yes.  In huge model, |size_t| should be |unsigned long int|, and |ptrdiff_t|
should be |long int|.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint