64Bit compatibility warnings

Stewart Gordon smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 24 04:32:29 PST 2012


On 24/01/2012 10:37, Don Clugston wrote:
<snip>
> IMHO the ideal solution would be:
> - treat size_t as a magical type (not a simple alias).
> - allow size_t -> uint if you are in a machine-specific version statement that implies 32
> bits (eg, version(D_InlineAsm_X86), version(Win32), version(X86)).
> - allow size_t -> ulong if you are in a version statement that implies 64 bits.
> - Otherwise, disallow implicit casts.
<snip>

And have what rules for implicit conversions _to_ size_t?

Stewart.


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