Topic: When to use size_t ?
Author: abed@saturn.wustl.edu (Abed M. Hammoud)
Date: 1 Nov 1993 14:50:14 GMT Raw View
Hello,
I was under the impression that I should use size_t to represent any
non-negative value. At the moment I have the logical operators defined
on my classes return object of type size_t instead of int.
Is there a rule that I should follow. Also loop counters I declare
to be of type size_t like:
for (size_t i = getLen(); i; i--)
etc...
(P.S: I am using g++ 2.4.5 on sun4 machine, size_t is defined as unsigned
long int)
Thanks for any comments,
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