On Sunday, January 22, 2012 12:25:25 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > I wasn't suggesting changing size_t, but rather ptrdiff_t which is much > less commonly used. (Or alternatively, just adding a ptrdiff_t -> > isize_t alias.) What you want is probably ssize_t. It's only defined for Posix at the moment though (core.sys.posix.sys.types). - Jonathan M Davis