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From: geoff@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Geoff Rimmer)
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Subject: Re: size_t
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Date: 21 Jun 89 00:10:05 GMT
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In-reply-to: dfp@cbnewsl.ATT.COM's message of 19 Jun 89 21:20:32 GMT

In article <845@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> dfp@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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