On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 22:07 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > And size_t is kinda connected to memory addresses. Do you agree :) ?
Yes. However, size_t should hold the maximal structure size, and we can limit it to 4 (or even 2) gigabytes. You can think of it as of the size of a contiguous chunk of memory. Difference between pointers to different chunks doesn't have to fit size_t or ptrdiff_t. Let's see: size_t is used: in sizeof - OK to limit in malloc - OK to limit in strlen - OK to limit in memcpy - OK to limit in file I/O - OK to limit We should not be limiting file and partition sizes and memory addresses, but it's OK to limit the size of memory that is used at once, including reading from files. That's the whole reason why off_t may be longer than size_t. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
