On 22 February 2012 17:39, Don Clugston <dac@nospam.com> wrote:

On 22/02/12 06:16, Walter Bright wrote:

On 2/21/2012 6:07 PM, Juan Manuel Cabo wrote:

16bit intel had 16bit segments and offsets, so memory was segmented
and you couldn't address more than 64kb at a time.
So you couldn't have grabbed^H^H"allocated" more than 64kb in real
mode in intel
in a single linear block.

size_t was 16 bits on all 16 bit memory models except the 'huge' one.

I expected that for ptrdiff_t, but for size_t as well?

So sizeof(int *) was larger than size_t ?