a few questions about discrete rng

[Philip Kendall]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:38:55PM -0500, Rodney Sparapani wrote:
>
> I was just reading the design part of the manual and it discusses size_t.  
> However, I found it to be pretty vague.  Maybe you could elaborate a bit by 
> adding your statement about it being the only portable way to index arrays 
> across 32-bit, 64-bit, etc.  

On a 64-bit platform, arrays can have more than 2^32 entries, but an
unsigned int is often still only 32 bits long (this is certainly the
case for gcc/Alpha, Compaq cc/Alpha and Sun cc/Sparc).

Phil

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