'int' is enough for 'length' to migrate code from x86 to x64
Frank Like via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Nov 19 01:06:15 PST 2014
> Clearly size_t (which I tend to alias with ℕ in my code for
> brevity and coolness) can express more than 2^31-1 items, which
> is appropriate to reflect the increase in usable memory per
> application on 64-bit platforms. Yes, the 64-bit version of a
> program or library can handle larger data sets. Just like it
I known it.
but if you compile the dfl Library to 64 bit,you will find error:
core.sys.windows.windows.WaitForMultipleObjects(uint
nCount,void** lpHandles,....) is not callable using argument
types(ulong,void**,...)
the 'WaitForMultipleObjects' Function is in
dmd2/src/druntime/src/core/sys/windows/windows.d
the argument of first is dfl's value ,it come from a 'length'
,it's type is size_t,now it is 'ulong' on 64 bit.
So druntime must keep the same as phobos for size_t.
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