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

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 21 November 2014 at 04:53:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> BTW, granted the 0x7FFFFFFF problems exhibit the bugs less 
> often, but paradoxically this can make the bug worse, because 
> then it only gets found much, much later in supposedly tested & 
> robust code.
>
> 0 crossing bugs tend to show up much sooner, and often 
> immediately.

Yes, I have to say the current design has some issue, but 
alternative seems worse.