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

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/21/2014 10:05 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> why do you believe that i'm not aware of overflows and don't checking
> for that? i'm used to think about overflows and do overflow checking in
> production code since my Z80 days. and i don't believe that "infrequent
> bug" is better than "frequent bug". both are equally bad.


Having coded with 16 bit computers for decades, one gets used to thinking about 
and dealing with overflows :-)