size_t(3) Linux Programmer's Manual size_t(3) NAME size_t - size type SYNOPSIS #include <stddef.h> typedef ... size_t; DESCRIPTION size_t is an unsigned integral type, and is the result type of the sizeof operator. Conversions In printf(3) and scanf(3), the z length modifier is used to specify a size_t argument (C99). Range size_t can represent values in at least [0, 65535] (C99). In <stdint.h>, the maximum value is given as SIZE_MAX (C99). NOTES size_t is also defined in <stdio.h>, <stdlib.h>, <string.h>, <time.h>, <wchar.h> and <sys/types.h>. CONFORMING TO ISO/IEC 9899 SEE ALSO ssize_t(3), ptrdiff_t(3) 2005-02-03 size_t(3)