glibc-2.0.100: bits/string2.h nits

Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Mon Nov 16 02:48:00 GMT 1998


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:

|> Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
|> 
|> > Actually the right type would intptr_t, but that is only available in C9x
|> > mode.
|> 
|> And it's not available in string.h even in C9x programs.

But, say, __intptr_t is.

|> size_t is and it is sufficent.

Strictly speaking not.  It is perfectly legal to have sizeof(size_t) <
sizeof(void *).  Of course, we probably need not care about this.

Andreas.

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