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 06:19:49 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: <86mt8nc9h6.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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3a600a3efa6b1d635770a4955b3f9787"; logging-data="3411329"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18YZBMj/wBJOfYXxFOJkzAO/rtw0S7cPgc=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LEy7DVB7iCGfscDZ0tHR5N9EXvI= sha1:D68PjV5SjZrF/YyqreyKob5Vuxo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:168277 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: > A writes: > >> On Friday, 18 November 2022 at 17:32:09 UTC+5:30, David Brown wrote: >> >>> On 18/11/2022 10:46, A wrote: >>> >>>> On Friday, 18 November 2022 at 14:49:36 UTC+5:30, David Brown wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 17/11/2022 11:43, A wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> And your history of C is bizarre. The ANSI C standard in 1989 was a >>>>> standardisation of /existing/ C common usage - it did not suddenly >>>>> invent C and its standard library out of thin air. >>>> >>>> I was talking in context of glibc. glibc 0.1 came out in 1991. In >>>> 1988, glibc pre-release appeared. >>> >>> So when you wrote "C standard library came with C89 in 1989", you meant >>> to write "glibc was released in 1991" ? It is /really/ difficult to >>> figure out what you are trying to say here. >> >> 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.