'int' is enough for 'length' to migrate code from x86 to x64

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 18 November 2014 at 13:35:46 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 12:33:51 +0000
> FrankLike via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> If you migrate your projct from x86 to x64,you will find the 
>> length is error,you must modify it ,such as:
>>    int i= (something).length
>> to
>>    size_t i = (something).length
>> 
>> but now ,'int' is enough for use,not huge and not small,only 
>> enough.
>> 'int' is easy to write,and most people are used to it.
>> Most importantly easier to migrate code,if  'length''s return 
>> value type is 'int'.
>> 
>> Thank you all.
> drop your C.
>
>   auto len = smth.length;
>
> works ok for both x86 and x86_64 (don't know what x64 is).

x64 is commonly used by windows programmers to refer to x86_64 
with a 64 bit OS.