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[Kramer]

In article <e1h555$31cs$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, pragma says...
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>In article <e1gu8s$2pnj$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Kramer says...
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>>Forgive me for asking such a naive (I feel I should know this already) question
>>and taking this off-topic, but what is the type size_t?  I've seen it used (and
>>also ptrdiff_t I believe), but I don't know what they're for or how to use them?
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>>-Kramer
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>Good question.
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>The names are inherited from the C/C++ conventions, and serve to separate the
>rigidly defined byte-width of D types from platform/architecture definitions for
>an address, buffer size or integer.  Using these types, along with D's
>references and pointers will ensure that the same code written under a 32-bit
>platform will compile just fine under a 64-bit one and so forth (its a
>portability thing).
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>http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/13388
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>- EricAnderton at yahoo

Just what I was looking for.

Thanks.

-Kramer