Re: advantage of using typedefs

John Bode wrote:

> 3. Sort of as a corollary to 2, it allows you to hide certain
> implementation details from other programmers. You probably don't want
> people making assumptions about the size of the offset available to
> them, precisely because that value can change from platform to
> platform.

or the opposite, since off_t is intended to be 64-bit (depending on
OS), regardless of the underlying hardware.

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