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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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- Subject: Re: What does _t stand for?
- Date: 11 Apr 96 12:37:50 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <316CA6EF.41C6@crppsg5.epfl.ch> "S.Wuthrich" <wuth@crppsg5.epfl.ch> writes:
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- >What does the ending _t stand for (e.g. size_t,uid_t,etc.)?
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- It stands for "type", so the _t suffix suggests that the symbol is a type
- suitable for whatever the main part of the name is.
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- Dan
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