On Sun, 20 May 2007, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 17:02:56 +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> > David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Only if size_t is a larger type than int (could be on x86-64 and alpha
> > > architectures). Other than that, this comparison would work. Which
> > > does not mean that this does not warrant fixing, but it is not
> > > necessarily the cause of this problem.
> >
> > ...sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(int) should hold...
>
> Really?
>
> $ cat test.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(void)
> {
> printf("sizeof(int) = %i\n", sizeof(int));
> printf("sizeof(long) = %i\n", sizeof(long));
> printf("sizeof(size_t) = %i\n", sizeof(size_t));
> return 0;
> }
> $ gcc -otest test.c
> $ ./test
> sizeof(int) = 4
> sizeof(long) = 8
> sizeof(size_t) = 8
>
> Hm, it does not seem that sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(int).
...On 64-bit perhaps but mine isn't one of them... I'm sorry if my
wording was misleading, I meant to say that on my system the equality
of sizeof()s should hold... :-)
> $ uname -m
> x86_64
>
> Yes, this is a 64-bit system.
ijjarvin@kivilampi-30:~/src/testsize$ ./main
sizeof(int) = 4
sizeof(long) = 4
sizeof(size_t) = 4
$ uname -m
i686
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i.
