On Saturday, 17 October 2020 at 15:03:29 UTC, Dennis wrote:
If you want to exactly match the original C code's semantics, I
suggest translating (unsigned) long with c_long or c_ulong. You
can import them here:
```
import core.stdc.config: c_long, c_ulong;
```
Then you could add this:
```
static assert(c_long.sizeof == size_t.sizeof);
```
This will fail on Windows 64 bit, where C longs are 32-bit and
pointers 64-bit.
That is useful information in general, I did not know about
core.stdc.config and it is useful in future projects!
But for my project the C works at 64 bits except on Windows for
the reason you gave. So by translating long in C to long in D it
loses 32 bits but gains 64 bits on Windows. This is what I want.
