Re:Everything I wish I knew when learning C
by Koshkin on Monday November 28, 2022 @11:41AM
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Well, semantically, "size_t" makes sense to me ("the type of a size variable"), while "uint_t" does not ("the type of a uint variable"), because "uint" is already a type, obviously - just like "int".
POSIX reserves "_t" suffix everywhere (not just for identifiers beginning with "int"/"uint" from <stdint.h>); references: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Reserved-..., https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V....
So I actually stand by my original comment that the convention of using "_t" suffix shouldn't be recommended. (It's just that the reasoning is for conformance with POSIX rather than with ISO C.)