Bug or what?

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 19:51:48 UTC, Phil Lavoie wrote:
> Ok so me and one of my colleagues have been working on some 
> code at a distance. We both use dmd as the compiler. I am under 
> Windows, she OSX.
>
> It is not uncommon that she experiences more strictness in the 
> type system than I do. For example, something like this does 
> compile for me, but not for her:
>
> int func(size_t i)
> {
>   return i;
> }
>
> It passes my compilation. She gets an error msg about implicit 
> casting of uint to int. I'm just wondering... has anybody else 
> experienced that and what is the expected behavior?
>
> Thanks,
> Phil

size_t is different on 32-bit and 64-bit systems. If she's 
building 64-bit binaries on OS-X and you're building 32-bit 
binaries on Windows you could see different messages.

Either way, size_t is unsigned, int is signed, and you should 
probably be getting the warning as well.