sizeof(size_t) and other "semantic" types on 32 bit systems?

Xin LI delphij at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 21:02:45 UTC 2011


2011/9/30 Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org>:
> Hello, Hackers.
>
>  I was surprised, when I discover that size_t are 32-bit wide on
>  32-bit (i386) system. Which "semantic" type should I use, for
>  example, for storing GEOM size in bytes in system-independent way? I
>  could use "uint64_t", of course, but I don't like this solution, as
>  it very low-level (ok, not so low-level as "unsigned long long", to
>  be honest).

off_t?

Cheers,
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