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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 21:33:33 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: ptrdiff_t
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At 02:02 AM 2/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>You should try "grep" next time.

I've never been ableto get gnu grep to work. :P
The documentation is obfuscated ... reads like a reference manual. It's
obviously geared to people who are already familiar with grep, not for grep
newbies.
I tried what I guessed from the documentation would find all files with a
certain string in a directory (which I knew had some files containing the
string) and it came up empty...

>You won't.  ptrdiff_t is the type of the result of subtracting two
>pointers, as defined by the compiler.

I know that, I just thought a C library function used it, since the C
library defines it.

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