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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: tcc - first impression. Was: Baby X is bor nagain
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 15:43:58 +0100
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:

> On 01/07/2024 22:48, Keith Thompson wrote:
....
>> %zd and %zu are supported by the runtime library, not by the compiler.
>> It's likely that tcc is configured to use something like msvcrt.dll,
>> which typically doesn't support C99 features.
>
> But that's what you get if you use size_t. Code breaks.

No, code does not break if you use size_t.

> Baby X doesn't expose any size_ts in its API, so code written for Baby X
> should work fine under tcc. Code written for other toolkits will fail if at
> any time you format a size_t for user display.

size_t was widely used prior to C99 and the introduction of %zu.

-- 
Ben.