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On 15 November 2010 19:56, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:

> While at it, why not intptr_t? It would be marginally more useful and
> almost free.

Because it can lead to code choices that use the whole 64 bit space
for something other than a single 32 bit integer (say, four 16 bit
words all packed together) which suddenly finds itself breaking on 32
bit platforms. Not that any fine FreeBSD programmers would make such a
mistake. :)

I agree with Luigi.


Adrian