new standard for malloc() suggested

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1790 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> braner at batcomputer.UUCP (braner) writes:
>Aha, now that we've been reminded of the low ceiling for malloc()'s
>argument (an unsigned int, which on some systems is only 16 bits):

On such systems, you already have problems with sizeof.  X3J11
has defined a new typedef size_t, which is the unsigned integral
type of the result of sizeof (perhaps (unsigned long)).  Malloc()'s
argument has been defined to have type size_t, which solves the
problem.  Undoubtedly there are some implementations which didn't
face up to this issue before that now have to choose between
supporting existing application code as-is or changing sizeof and
malloc() to use the new type.  Many of those implementors are on
the X3J11 committee and have already "bought into" this decision.