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Started by Exellion August 13, 2003 06:55 PM

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Exellion

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August 13, 2003 06:55 PM

Something just hit me. Why the _t after datatypes, like in size_t? I''ve seen lots of people do this, but I never gave it a thought. Well now I have and I cant figure it out. Please help :D

JTippetts

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August 13, 2003 07:47 PM

It''s just a style convention, _t denoting a typedef''ed type. It would probably be a bad idea to pollute the namespace with a typedef called size, so they appended a _t to differentiate it.

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