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

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:17:06 -0300
Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> "This bug can manifest itself for arrays whose length (in elements) is 
> 2^30 or greater (roughly a billion elements)"
> 
> How often does that happen in practice?
once in almost ten years is too often, as for me. i think that the
answer must be "never". either no bug, or the code is broken. and one
of the worst code is the code that "works most of the time", but still
broken.
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