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0 pointsAbacusAvenger5y ago0 comments

Out of curiosity, do you know of any implementations where ssize_t has that kind of range limitation?

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Nope. But I do know of at least one implementation where it's not present at all—msvcrt. ssize_t isn't specified in the c standard, it's part of posix. ptrdiff_t is standard.

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0 pointsAbacusAvenger5y ago0 comments

Out of curiosity, do you know of any implementations where ssize_t has that kind of range limitation?

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moonchild5y ago

Nope. But I do know of at least one implementation where it's not present at all—msvcrt. ssize_t isn't specified in the c standard, it's part of posix. ptrdiff_t is standard.

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