Wouldn't ssize_t be better, given the description (size_t, which sometimes stores -1)?
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2004-06-23 18:05: Subject: Learned to swim (Re: Drowning in the Shuffler (SEGV))
Better would probably be to use ptrdiff_t.
/ Henrik Grubbström (Lysator)