size_t conversion warnings when building on windows 64 bit

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size_t conversion warnings when building on windows 64 bit

#1 Post by boxerab »

Hello,
First of all, I was very pleased to see that the *only* type of warning I get when building
under Visual Studio 12 for windows 64 bit is the following:

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conversion from 'size_t' to 'unsigned long', possible loss of data
so the library is in good shape with respect to warnings.

But, I do get hundreds of these types of warnings; are you concerned about this? Is there a plan to fix this?
I imagine that probably in all cases, the library user is in no danger of truncating data, but still it would be nice
to have zero warnings :)

Thanks,
Aaron

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Re: size_t conversion warnings when building on windows 64 b

#2 Post by Jan Schlamelcher »

Hi Aaron,

we know about this issue and i've already been working on a patch. We are currently discussing which parts of our API shall be changed to "std::size_t" and which occurences of "unsigned long" will be replaced by "Uint32" and appropriate usage of "OFstatic_cast".

Best,
Jan

boxerab
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Re: size_t conversion warnings when building on windows 64 b

#3 Post by boxerab »

Thanks, Jan. I think it will both astonish and please toolkit users when they see
absolutely no warnings after a build.

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