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Re:Using signed or unsigned int by default in C (2015) by qsort on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:40PM (#32570313)
I wasn't sure, I just checked.

POSIX reserves everything ending in _t. C99 and later reserve identifiers starting with "int" or "uint" and ending in "_t".

Source: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/identifier

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Re:Using signed or unsigned int by default in C (2015) by Someone on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:20PM (#32571691)
For those wondering: that phrase has to be read as “C99 and later reserve identifiers ((starting with "int" or "uint") and ending in "_t")”, not as “C99 and later reserve identifiers starting with "int" or "uint" and identifiers ending in "_t"”

It’s not as if a program with a variable called interest_rate or ford_model_t would be nonconforming according to the standard.

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