[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New Patch

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:12:09PM +0100, Alexander Mai wrote:
> 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...).

Why can't size_t be casted to int?

        Raimar

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