Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes:

Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:

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Not always practical.  A good example is the type size_t.  If a
function takes an argument of type size_t, then the symbol size_t
should be defined, no matter which header the function is being
declared in.

>
Why?  One can use a type without a name for such type.

Convenience and existing practice.  Sure, an implementation of
<string.h> could provide a declaration of memcpy() without making
size_t visible, but what would be the point?

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