From -3944104895961948920 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,8d9af67f0c48e4ef X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Thread: fc772,8d9af67f0c48e4ef X-Google-Attributes: gidfc772,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-04 18:02:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!denver-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!namche.sun.com!sunnews1.Eng.Sun.COM!engnews1.eng.sun.com!taumet!clamage From: James Kanze Newsgroups: comp.std.c++,comp.lang.c++.moderated Subject: Re: Unsignedness of size_t Date: 5 May 2002 00:55:19 GMT Organization: James Kanze Lines: 28 Approved: stephen.clamage@sun.com (comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <868z719qp8.fsf@alex.gabi-soft.de> References: <3CC7DB8F.52E75D62@bawi.org> <3ccd96e9.5974430@news.ch.kpnqwest.net> <1e27bd36.0205010847.3c667d35@posting.google.com> <6IJvr2E$1S08Ewv8@robinton.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: taumet.eng.sun.com X-NNTP-Posting-Host: netlab.cs.rpi.edu X-Original-Date: 03 May 2002 17:49:39 +0200 X-Submission-Address: c++-submit@netlab.cs.rpi.edu X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.lang.c++.moderated iQBVAwUAPNPuWkHMCo9UcraBAQEPNwIAos7NjN2lVAruR3W5fYLjGk0vpWB/Vena H06pYqcJji9ACQ2OdTUtA6RWD3Xgocyf3tY8bGw/pFZVhikK93eECg== =0LtR X-Approved-For-Group: francis.moderator@robinton.demon.co.uk comp.lang.c++.moderated X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-Length: 1142 Originator: clamage@taumet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:11043 comp.lang.c++.moderated:42666 Francis Glassborow writes: |> And the real irony of size_t is that there is also |> ptrdiff_t. Think about it. Either the latter has to be a larger |> type than that used for size_t or size_t must be limited to half |> its range (in any program that uses ptrdiff_t) Or the result of taking the difference between two pointers isn't always defined. Guess which solution was adopted in C (and continued in C++). -- James Kanze mailto:kanze@gabi-soft.de Conseils en informatique oriente objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung Ziegelhttenweg 17a, 60598 Frankfurt, Germany Tel. +49(0)179 2607481 [ Send an empty e-mail to c++-help@netlab.cs.rpi.edu for info ] [ about comp.lang.c++.moderated. First time posters: do this! ] [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]