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From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Safe to use *_t typedefs?
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Date: 16 Mar 88 18:02:31 GMT
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In article <1086@bentley.UUCP> MH Cox <bentley!cox> writes:
>The proposed ANSI standard C has produced
>a lot of new data types:  size_t, time_t, etc.

[This is not an answer to the posters question.]

A caveat: be careful when using variables of these generic types in
portable code.  time_t may be int on machine X but long int on machine
Y.  We recently ported some UNIX accounting code that had this
problem.

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