Re: Win64 warnings about size_t

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> My first 5-6 checks of where these happen are all cases where we
> assign the result of strlen() something to an int, or call a function
> taking an int as parameter with the result of strlen() in there.

Yeah. Getting rid of all those cases is impractical I think, and
pointless anyway --- we have limitations in palloc and Datum
representation that ensure we'll never be dealing with strings (or other
values) larger than 1GB.

> strlen() returns size_t, which AFAICS is per the standard and not even
> a Microsoft-specific idea.

Correct.

> So I don't really see what win64 does differently in this case, but
> perhaps I've been looking at this code too long? Or is it simply that
> MSVC warns about this and GCC doesn't, and I shuld disbale the
> warning?

I think MSVC is just complaining about something gcc doesn't. If you
can disable this specific warning it'd be a good plan.

regards, tom lane