Integer conversions too pedantic in 64-bit

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 15.02.2011 15:18, schrieb spir:
> On 02/15/2011 02:01 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> Am 15.02.2011 12:50, schrieb spir:
>>> On 02/15/2011 03:44 AM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
>>>> spir wrote:
>>>>> Rename size-t, or rather introduce a meaningful standard alias? (would
>>>>> vote for Natural)
>>>>
>>>> Maybe ptrint and ptruint?
>>>
>>> If ptr means pointer, then it's wrong: size-t is used for more than
>>> that, I guess. Strangely enough, while "size" may suggest it, .length
>>> does not return a size_t but an uint.
>>>
>>> Denis
>>
>> .length of what? An array?
>> I'm pretty sure it returns size_t.
>
> unittest {
> int[] ints; auto l = ints.length;
> writeln(typeof(l).stringof);
> }
> press play ;-)
>
> denis

void main() {
   size_t x;
   writefln(typeof(x).stringof);
}
try this, too ;-)

Because it's an alias the information about size_t gone at runtime and 
the "real" type is shown. uint in your case. (Here - gdc on amd64 - it's 
ulong).

Cheers,
- Daniel