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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: recovering from std::bad_alloc in std::string reserve
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Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> writes:
> On Friday, 28 May 2021 at 02:58:18 UTC+3, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> In fact C doesn't define a type for representing file sizes. 
>> (It might be nice if it did.)
>
> Or may be it might be nice if it did take it back from C++ where
> std::filesystem::file_size() is of type std::uintmax_t.

Quite right.  I post in comp.lang.c more than in comp.lang.c++ and I
forgot where I was.  Apologies for any confusion.

> Also standard should end the woo allowing implementations to
> have integers that are not integers. It is awful.

Not sure what you're referring to here.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips Healthcare
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */