Ron Johnson wrote:
> Besides, wouldn't changing size_t would break binary compatibility 
> when moving data files from an older machine to a newer machine

Sure, just as changing long or int. (At least long is 64-bit on amd64,
not sure about int, and too lazy to check right now). That's why they're
binary files, not generally machine-independent.


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