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size_t

This is a data type defined in the sys/types.h header (of fundamental type unsigned int) and is used to measure the file size in units of character. It is used to hold the result of the sizeof operator in C, for example sizeof(int)=4, sizeof(char)=1, etc.




2011-07-02