On 2/17/11 5:10 PM, David Simcha wrote:
Have you actually tried porting any application code to 64? Phobos and other similarly generic libraries don't count because code that's that generic legitimately can't assume that no arrays are going to be billions of elements long.
Code that uses the unrecommended practice of mixing int and uint with size_t everywhere will be indeed difficult to port to 64 bits. But that's a problem with the code, and giving that unrecommended practice legitimacy by making it look good is aiming at the wrong target.
Use size_t for sizes and it's golden. You can't go wrong. On the rare occasions when you want to store arrays of indexes, do the cast by hand, don't ask the standard library to give it a nice face by making the assumption for you.
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