[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New Patch

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:29:00PM +0100, Alexander Mai wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:21:09 +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> >
> >Why can't size_t be casted to int?
> 
> Didn't check the spec, but given that "similar" interfaces
> dealing with large objects use size_t may indicate
> that the upper limit is above MAXINT.
> And given lack of any such knowledge casting to the
> "bigger" type in existence (long instead of int) seems
> to be on the safe side.

I agree that casting to unsigned long int is the safest thing to do in
general. However in the case you want to change it is unnecessary
(unless you have a system where size_t is a long).

        Raimar

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