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From: "deckerben" <deckerben AT freenet DOT de>
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Subject: compiling CINT - advice on size_t 
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 22:08:12 +0100
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I have sinned. I have edited one of the DJGPP header files, specifically
stddef.h.
I was compiling CINT (do you know it ??) under DJGPP and the make ended
midstream when it needed to link with stddef.h - saying that size_t was
undefined.

So I did a little bit of looking in the internet and saw that it could be
defined as follows:
#undef size_t
#define size_t 42

You know what I did next, right?
Well, it seemed to work. CINT.exe runs good (so far :-)

Now my question to the think-tank:
What is size_t? Can I leave stddef.h changed, or should I could my blessings
and change it back again?
YES \ NO and WHY, please I ask
    No big problems this time -just would like some input - could prevent
problems down the road...

Thanks,
Ben