[Geany-devel] Adding size_t before release

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Thu Sep 15 00:39:20 UTC 2011


On 09/14/2011 05:11 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On 15 September 2011 00:33, Matthew Brush<mbrush at codebrainz.ca>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know who generates the c99.tags, but it would be cool if the next
>> release of Geany had the `size_t` symbol in its default tags.  I can't get
>> Geany to parse my GNU headers using create_c_tags.sh script (or otherwise),
>> but even just copying the line for `ssize_t` and dropping the first S works
>> well enough to get auto-completion and highlighting of this symbol.
>
> Yeah, its rather more useful than ssize_t.  Strange, if the tags were
> generated on a gnu machine then size_t is two lines away from ssize_t
> although posix puts ssize_t in unistd.h, don't ya just luv standards.

What I'd like to know is where is size_t defined?  According to what 
I've read, it's supposed to be in stddef.h but I can't find it anywhere 
in GNU libc downloaded the other day.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush



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