From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: C++, complex, etc
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On Mon, 22 May 2000 09:34:56 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Mon, 22 May 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
>> 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.

So ptrdiff_t == ssize_t?

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