Help with size_t

[Peter Hessler]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:20:00 -0700
walt <wa1ter at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:So, my real question is:  why go thru the dance of using 'size_t' when
:I know for sure that an 'int' is going to work perfectly?  What is the
:motivation for this confusing chain of typedefs?

'size_t' will be the same on all platforms, where 'int' may not be.  Its
tricks like that, that allow programs to work on i386, vax, sparc64, etc, by
just recompiling.

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