Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:35:55 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 22 May 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >sizeof doesn't help here: it cannot tell whether size_t is signed or 
> >unsigned.
> 
> But reading the standard ("size_t is unsigned") can.

You are taking my message out of context.  The context was how does an
ANSI C program do that automatically (to stay portable).  I have yet
to see a program that can read the ANSI C spec at compile time.