From:	buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: C++, complex, etc
Date:	19 May 2000 13:51:00 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> The correct test would be (after including limits.h) INT_MAX <= 
>> SIZE_MAX. [instead of sizeof(int) <= sizeof(size_t)]
>
>Alas, there's no SIZE_MAX in C90.  

Yes.

>It is only available in the new C99
>standard, which is not yet universally supported (DJGPP doesn't
>support it). 

So, you even managed to bring this back on topic for this newsgroup.
For DJGPP (and any C90 compiler), you can write (size_t)-1 instead
of SIZE_MAX.

Of course, as many have said in this thread, one wouldn't need all
these tests, when one uses size_t consistantly.

-- 
Regards, Dieter

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