> I just discovered, to my dismay, that size_t is only 32 bits, even on > 64-bit processors. Is there a particular pressing reason for this? A > quick investigation reveals that even dd(1) is affected -- this is IMO > not good.
You are wrong. limits.h:#define SIZE_T_MAX ULONG_MAX /* max value for a size_t (historic) */ > I'd suggest, given modern file sizes, that we bump it to 64 bits on all > platforms. Comments? No way.
