Message-ID: <3923FDDD.2186F25@mtu-net.ru> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 18:27:41 +0400 From: "Alexei A. Frounze" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: size_t References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Recipient: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Thu, 18 May 2000, Alexei A. Frounze wrote: > > > > > If it's a standard type, what is it needed for then? Isn't int enough? > > > > > > No, it isn't enough. If it were enough, the ANSI comittee would not have > > > invented it. > > > > Like fpos_t which depends on file system? > > Yes, fpos_t is another example of such a type. ptrdiff_t is yet another. Okay, I agree about this. But does that mean we read books which teach us to make buggy programs? There usually used "int" and "long int" instead of "size_t" and "fpos_t". People, plese say who has such books. I wanna know how many of you have them. -- Alexei A. Frounze ----------------------------------------- Homepage: http://alexfru.chat.ru Mirror: http://members.xoom.com/alexfru