On 12/16/19 2:12 AM, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > What about > > typedef ptrdiff_t dfa_size_t
That declaration would imply that the type is specific to DFAs. However, the type is used (with exactly the same meaning) in a lot of other places. This is why I used the more-generic name "idx_t" internally dfa.c.