From:	buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
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Subject:	Re: C++, complex, etc
Date:	18 May 2000 11:54:27 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>You said "if both size_t and int equal the same machine word".
>Hans-Bernhard is telling you that that's a big ``if'', and a portable
>program cannot rely on that fact, or even verify it reliably.

Of course, int can never be the same type as size_t, because
size_t must be an unsigned integral type. For the verifying:
You certainly know about limits.h, which should be reliable.

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