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		earenndil on Jan 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Allocate Memory (2016) Likely targeting c89, which doesn't have the fixed-size ints (nor size_t, as the sibling suggests).

ShroudedNight on Jan 13, 2020 [–]

My recollection was that size_t and ptrdiff_t were present in c89. size_t was the type yielded by sizeof. This draft appears to corroborate my recollection:

http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#3.3.3.4

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