From: buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
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Subject: Re: size_t
Date: 22 May 2000 11:08:18 GMT
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Alexei A. Frounze wrote:

>Actual question was not about type casting in general. It was about type
>casting for such things as size_t and fpos_t.

fpos_t is described as an object, not as an aritmetic type. It can 
be a structure (but not an array). Therefore, fpos_t is only useful
for "remembering" a position in a stream by fgetpos, and later
resetting to this position by fsetpos. You must not do any arithmetic
with fpos_t. You must not cast any other type to fpos_t and vice
versa.