Casts and some suggestions to avoid them

[Rikki Cattermole]

On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 18:38:47 UTC, bearophile wrote:
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> In 2 cases I have had to cast to convert an array length to 
> type uint to allow the code compile on both a 32 and 64 bit 
> system, to assign such length to some uint value.
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> Bye,
> bearophile

Personally I design my code around size_t/ptrdiff_t to eliminate
these issues as much as possible. Yeah its more memory but it
does mean less issues with 32/64bit.