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Avoid the use of ptrdiff_t.
This isn't the right type anyway to assure that it contains a pointer. That type would be intptr_t or uintptr_t. However the C99 standard says that those types are optional, so their use would not be portable. This commit simply uses size_t or whatever configure decided to use for size_t. That would be the same length as ptrdiff_t, and so will work just as well. The code checks to see if the length of the type used is the same as the length of a void pointer, so there is already protection against the use of the wrong type. The use of size_t (or ptrdiff_t) will almost always work, as all modern architectures have an array size that is the same as the pointer size. Only old segmented architectures would have to fall back to the slower CRC-32 calculation, where the amount of memory that can be accessed is larger than the maximum array size.
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