integer cast in object_.d

Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 19:57:33 PDT 2011


I'm looking at compare() in class TypeInfo_Array and it's defined as:

override int compare(in void* p1, in void* p2)
{
    void[] a1 = *cast(void[]*)p1;
    void[] a2 = *cast(void[]*)p2;
    size_t sz = value.tsize();
    size_t len = a1.length;

    if (a2.length < len)
        len = a2.length;
    for (size_t u = 0; u < len; u++)
    {
        int result = value.compare(a1.ptr + u * sz, a2.ptr + u * sz);
        if (result)
            return result;
    }
    return cast(int)a1.length - cast(int)a2.length;
}

Shouldn't that return line be:
return cast(int)(a1.length - a2.length);

To make it 64-bit safe?


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