size_t.sizeof == 2 && __LINE__.sizeof == 4

[Luís Marques via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 10 July 2017 at 18:03:27 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> I think it's reasonable to instrument druntime/phobos with 
> line_t, and then libraries may or may not work with 16-bit (I 
> wouldn't be surprised if most don't), but at least they will 
> likely work for files less than 65k lines (quite a few) :)

Right, since for 32- and 64-bit code line_t is an alias for 
size_t, nothing breaks.

> I will review and approve such a request if you make it. You'd 
> likely need buy-in from Andrei.

That's nice. So maybe I should submit for the canonical druntime 
first and ask for a merge on the LDC side?

BTW, if you want to help bikeshed the name for the 16-bit version 
identifier name, there's still time... 
<https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/2194#issuecomment-314174622>

D_P16? D_16? Something else?