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| title | Pointer Subtraction | |
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ANSI 3.3.6, 4.1.1 The type of integer required to hold the difference between two pointers to elements of the same array, ptrdiff_t
The ptrdiff_t typedef is an int on the 32-bit x86 platform. On 64-bit platforms, the ptrdiff_t typedef is an __int64.