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Re:Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of... by Gibbon1 on Monday September 22, 2025 @02:17AM (#45329687)
I've been tending to use ssize_t for indexes instead of int. Part of the reason was reading someones decent argument that

   for(int i=0; blah blah; i++)
Is actually broken and dangerous on 64 bit machines.
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Re:Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of... by oguz-ismail on Monday September 22, 2025 @03:22AM (#45330108)
How is ssize_t any better? It's not part of standard C and is only guaranteed to be capable of holding values between -1 and SSIZE_MAX (minimum 32767, no relation to SIZE_MAX).
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