Should r.length of type ulong be supported on 32-bit systems?

Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Oct 1 02:06:41 PDT 2016


On Saturday, 1 October 2016 at 08:09:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Friday, September 30, 2016 22:31:23 Andrei Alexandrescu via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Every time this comes up, I strongly argue in favor of 
> requiring that length be size_t. Occasionally, that restriction 
> is annoying, but allowing anything else plays havoc with 
> generic code. It's even worse when you have to start dealing 
> with the fact that the same code needs to compile and function 
> the same on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.
>
> [...]

+1


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