size_t should be typedef

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1 total messages Started by Lewis G. Pringle Wed, 09 Sep 1992 00:37

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Author: Lewis G. Pringle
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 00:37

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In libg++ 2.1 it seems that size_t is made to be a #define. This has the
unfortunate side-effect of breaking code which uses functional cast notation
to cast to type size_t.

eg:
	size_t	fred	=	size_t (1);

fails to compile, because size_t is expanded as a #define to unsigned int.

If you must check all over the place if it is defined, why not use __size_t or
some such thing? Or at least, if you MUST use a #define here, please #define to
a simple type name - (first cons up bogus typedef like
typedef unsigned int _nobody_would_ever_use_this_, and then #define size_t _nobody_would_ever_use_this_.
At least this way, my code would compile :-).


			Lewis.

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