[phobos] sizediff_t
Walter Bright
walter at digitalmars.com
Mon Jan 10 22:27:35 PST 2011
Yes we do, ptrdiff_t, defined in object.
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> One question - we don't have a type for the difference of two size_t
> objects. That would be int on m32 and long on m64. C has historically
> used ptrdiff_t for that, but not all size differences are pointer
> differences, so gnu has acknowledged that by defining ssize_t ("signed
> size_t" I suppose).
>
> While being in a crunch making some 64-bit changes I defined the type
> sizediff_t. I wonder if that's okay as a permanent solution.
>
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