So? What definition prevents you from having 17 bit ptrdiff_t and 18 bit ssize_t, or vice versa, if you have a 16 bit address range?
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2004-06-23 19:47: Subject: Learned to swim (Re: Drowning in the Shuffler (SEGV))
As far as I recall, C requires the signed integer types to behave like 2-complement values.
/ Henrik Grubbström (Lysator)