On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:29:47 -0500 bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:
> From a recent update in File I've seen that size() returns an ulong, given by > seek(): > http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d?rev=2284#L585 > http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d?rev=2284#L1245 > > It uses fseek, that seems to return a signed value: > http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/ftell/ > > Isn't it better and safer if those functions of File return a long instead of > an ulong? For any reason, I would rather expect sizediff_t (read: a cardinal). Denis -- -- -- -- -- -- -- vit esse estrany ☣ spir.wikidot.com
