pointer subtraction and sizeof

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Peter Nilsson

Yingjian said:
this substraction never fails

Yes, it can.


The sizes of ptrdiff_t and size_t are incidental.

What I actually said was "...if the object were bigger than PTRDIFF_MAX
bytes. [Note that PTRDIFF_MAX is typically smaller than SIZE_MAX.]"
 

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