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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
>
>> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>> [...]
>> After digging into the history, I have the impression that SVID
>> was hoping to be a leader in defining standard interfaces (which
>
> SVID was AT&T's attempt to standardize unix interfaces.  The last
> edition (third) was released in 1989, but earlier versions date
> to 1983.
>
> As to who, exactly, first proposed size_t, that I don't recall.

I've looked but haven't found any information on that.