COMPO

[Steve Teale]

On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 09:36:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I cloned your Git repository. Instead of editing your Makefile 
> to switch
> from your file structure to mine, I created a SCons build, 
> using the
> separate compilation approach for now. with my 64-bit build of 
> your
> code, I am seeing errors such as:
>
> acomp.d(782): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression 
> (parent.children.length + 1LU) of type ulong to int
> acomp.d(801): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression 
> (p.children.length + 1LU) of type ulong to int
> acomp.d(857): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression 
> (p.children.length) of type ulong to int
>
> so it looks like your code is 32-bit specific. I guess this is 
> the
> ago-old problem of C, C++, D, etc. that int is the most natural 
> size for
> the platform, code is inherently not as portable as you think.

Thanks Russel. I suspected that would be the case - like you say, 
old habits die hard. I guess I'll have to install 64 bit Ubuntu 
on my laptop so I have somewhere to launder the code, and build 
64 bit.

Steve