>"size_t" size has pretty funny origins "Yep. Its origins lie in the old <std.h> header we developed at Whitesmiths, Ltd. in the late 1970s. We used the typed

>"size_t" size has pretty funny origins "Yep. Its origins lie in the old <std.h> header we developed at Whitesmiths, Ltd. in the late 1970s. We used the typedef BYTES as the type of sizeof, to be sure we could count all the bytes in the largest declarable (or allocatable) object. X3J11 chose size_t to follow the *_t convention that had begun to creep up in Posix." https://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/221996-origin-size_t-curious https://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/221996-origin-size_t-curio... Do we have different senses of humour, or have you heard something different???