What is size_t in C?

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From Wikipedia:

According to the 1999 ISO C standard
(C99), size_t is an unsigned integer
type of at least 16 bit (see sections
7.17 and 7.18.3).

size_tis an unsigned data type
defined by several C/C++ standards,
e.g. the C99 ISO/IEC 9899 standard,
that is defined in stddef.h.1 It can
be further imported by inclusion of
stdlib.h as this file internally sub
includes stddef.h.

This type is used to represent the
size of an object. Library functions
that take or return sizes expect them
to be of type or have the return type
of size_t. Further, the most
frequently used compiler-based
operator sizeof should evaluate to a
constant value that is compatible with
size_t.

As an implication, size_t is a type guaranteed to hold any array index.

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