On Friday, 12 February 2016 at 08:11:57 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Regardless of which way we go, the problem will _eventually_ go
away when 32-bit systems finally die out, but that's likely to
take a while.
Many micro-controllers will probably remain 32-bit indefinitely;
64-bit is just a waste of power for most applications. Even if
you want to ignore non-PC/smartphone CPUs, we'll still have the
same problem whenever someone gets around to implementing 128-bit
cent/ucent.
Ultimately, the only real solution to this kind of problem is
some combination of:
1) Select the right type for the job (don't use `ulong` when you
really mean `size_t`), and
2) Bounds checking. If iota's length is not expressible as a
`size_t`, convert it to one *safely* using `std.conv.to()`.
Anything less is just asking for bugs.
