Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:34:56 +0300 (IDT)
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On Mon, 22 May 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> ptrdiff_t?  Never heard of that one.

It's ANSI C; see stddef.h.

> I always thought the difference between two pointers was a size_t
> (the size of the object between the pointers).

A difference between pointers cannot be expressed with a size_t
because that difference can be negative.