[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New Patch

["Alexander Mai" <st002279@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:19:06 +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:

>> There are indeed both kinds of warnings and my cast
>> to (long) is to be well justified.
>
>The original code works without warning as long as size_t isn't a
>long. There are no information about this in the C spec. To avoid this
>you can do a cast to int: "(int)sizeof(...)".
>

In turn your proposal would break if sizeof() is actually 
of type long. (and it can't be casted perhaps...).
My solution is perhaps not perfect, just "better" and for most
systems it is fine. Printing size_t is a famous programming FAQ.

You don't need to teach me C programming, guys.


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Alexander Mai
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