2009/10/28 Vincent Snijders <[email protected]>: >>> I think the description is a bit strange: "Character size type". I >>> wouldhave >>> guess the c was not because of Character, but because of the C language. >> >> The descriptions is completely wrong. >> > > Michael, do you need a bug report?
Originally Posted by google `size_t' is a type suitable for representing the amount of memory a data object requires, expressed in units of `char'. It is an integer type (C cannot keep track of fractions of a `char'), and it is unsigned (negative sizes make no sense). It is the type of the result of the `sizeof' operator. It is the type you pass to malloc() and friends to say how much memory you want. It is the type returned by strlen() to say how many "significant" characters are in a string The more detailed answer is here: http://bytes.com/forum/thread220206.html -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
