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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:57:09 +0200
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:58:37 -0000 (UTC)
Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:

> 
> It's an embarrassing blemish on Rust that they made their principal
> integer types like this; it makes all Rust code look idiotically
> hardware dependent.  You can't code an abstract algorithm out of
> Sedgewick, Knuth or Cormen in Rust without peppering the code with
> distracting 32's and 64's.
> 

If size suffixes make you nervous, Rust has equivalents of size_t and
ptrdiff_t. Named, respectively, usize and isize.
But you probably know it.