std.compress

[Peter Alexander]

On Friday, 7 June 2013 at 13:47:59 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Friday, 7 June 2013 at 07:42:15 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 20:50:08 UTC, David Nadlinger 
>> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 20:49:19 UTC, Walter Bright 
>>> wrote:
>>>>> uses C printf (!) in the examples,
>>>>
>>>> Again, trying to make it lightweight.
>>>
>>> … and wrong, in more than one way.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> (What happens if the input is larger than 'uint.max / 2 + 1'? 
>>> Than 'uint.max' on a 'size_t.sizeof == 8' target?)
>>
>> Not sure what you're getting at. I can only see 2 uncommented 
>> calls to printf, and neither do any formatting, so I'm not 
>> sure how they'd be wrong?
>
> '%d' isn't the correct format specifier for size_t. The code 
> will still run on 64 bit systems (at least with the common ABIs 
> out there), but print wrong values for long inputs.
>
> Using an API that is known to be error-prone even in the C 
> world simply has no place in the Phobos documentation.

Ah right, sorry. Didn't notice you were talking about the 
documentation. My bad!