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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: size_t
Message-ID: <10467@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Jun 89 04:52:36 GMT
References: <934@tukki.jyu.fi> <845@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <GEOFF.89Jun21011005@onyx.cs.warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <GEOFF.89Jun21011005@onyx.cs.warwick.ac.uk> geoff@cs.warwick.ac.uk (Geoff Rimmer) writes:
>Does this mean that size_t should be a #define rather than a typedef?

No, size_t must be a genuine type name.

>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.

It is the implementor's job to make sure that there is no such problem.
I think it makes an interesting exercise to figure out how this can be
implemented.