Re: Win64 warnings about size_t

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 03:13, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> I have adapted the win64 patches a bit, and now have a working build.
>> As in it runs the regression tests fine. However, I have well over a
>> thousand warnings of the type:
>> conversion from 'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> strlen() returns size_t, which AFAICS is per the standard and not even
>> a Microsoft-specific idea. size_t is 8-bit - but it appears to be
>> 8-bit on Linux as well, when in 64-bit mode.
>
> Uh, you mean size_t is 8 _bytes_ on Win64?  That would make sense.

Yes, 8 bytes, 64 bit. Of course :-) Sorry.

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