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From: avery@netcom.COM (Avery Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why have xxx_t typedef names
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Date: 7 Feb 91 19:20:31 GMT
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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>systems that have <sys/types.h> (e.g. POSIX ones) generally allow the

Hmmmm, must mean ORCA/C is a POSIX compiler. I do know the <types.h>
in that one mainly defines types of use to the native toolbox,
while the _t types are mainly scattered throughout the header files
which use them the most, i.e. time_t and clock_t in <time.h>,
div_t and ldiv_t in <math.h>, etc.

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