Really? It should be ok to have a ptrdiff_t with a larger range, as far as I can see.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2004-06-23 19:12: Subject: Learned to swim (Re: Drowning in the Shuffler (SEGV))
No, I mean that the definition of ptrdiff_t (difference between two related pointers) means that it has to have the same range as ssize_t (maximum size of a memory block or -1).
/ Henrik Grubbström (Lysator)