Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: size_t vs long. Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:53:55 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <865yfade4s.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <5a71fdad-b7d6-4b4a-a3ee-c5a9beb75d28n@googlegroups.com> <20221117011851.690@kylheku.com> <02eee7cc-6d03-420f-adf6-d7b87592fe38n@googlegroups.com> <2b19488a-2675-4dfd-9de8-11720bb222a7n@googlegroups.com> <86mt8nc9h6.fsf@linuxsc.com> <77ae6697-3960-46fe-9c32-fe4370038107n@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3a600a3efa6b1d635770a4955b3f9787"; logging-data="3443855"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX198ka6O6Y/u6lx/G7sRSuH4ij8PcU5W6+M=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3Bl+OVjX7Ih2NgDA78GCvJLtkRU= sha1:PlGvwl2fHkwb8wjdsHiI7V4r4tU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:168285 A writes: > On Saturday, 19 November 2022 at 19:50:04 UTC+5:30, Tim Rentsch wrote: > >> sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: >> >>> A writes: [...] >>>> My assumption was that glibc original authors would have been >>>> part of C89 standardization committee. >>> >>> You know what they say about assumptions. >> >> Makes an ass out of you and umption. > > People really lack group mail etiquettes. > > Tim, > > If your statement is directed at me, then I must say that you are > an asshole. My statement wasn't directed at you, nor at anyone else. Nothing in what I said was meant to be directed at anyone. It was simply a joke, a variation on the usual rejoinder to the word "assume". (Incidentally, I can't take credit for the joke - it's a line from the movie The Long Kiss Goodnight.)