Re: ptrdiff_t misuse

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>

 > > Huh?  The only way I can understand that is that people who have no
 > > clue about programming in C are programming in C!
 > 
 > "No clue" is an exaggeration, IMO.  One can program in C without
 > remembering by heart all of its obscure data types.

The name "ptrdiff_t" may be obscure, but the type ptrdiff_t hardly is.
It's at the heart of C programming.  I can't imagine anybody will have
trouble remembering what it means once they learn it.