Somehow give a warning when trying to assign a size_t/ptrdiff_t to int or uint
WebFreak001 via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Apr 17 02:29:33 PDT 2016
It's annoying to fix all these `int index =
str.indexOf("something")` to size_t/ptrdiff_t because you started
writing the code thinking that indexOf returns an integer even
though it returns a ptrdiff_t. When porting code from 32bit to
64bit you need to fix all these lines which can quickly become
quite complex from functions where you don't expect them to
return size_t or ptrdiff_t
Adding a warning when trying to do something like `int i =
funcReturningPtrdiff();` would make porting easier because you
would already spot the issues on the OS/architecture you are
working on. This also affects porting windows to linux as DMD on
windows uses 32bit by default and on linux it uses the
architecture you downloaded as default.
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