On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > GCC requires exact symmetry of types between ssize_t and size_t. GCC does not know or care about ssize_t; it's not an ISO C type. POSIX, which defines ssize_t, does not require it to be the signed type corresponding to size_t. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com