isize_t?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, January 22, 2012 03:41:30 Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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).

Actually, a better idea would be to just use c_long (which is what ssize_t is 
anyway), which is in core.stdc.config. It's available on all OSes.

- Jonathan M Davis