> On Feb. 25, 2016, 12:22 a.m., Michael Park wrote:
> > 3rdparty/libprocess/3rdparty/stout/include/stout/abort.hpp, line 52
> > <https://reviews.apache.org/r/43416/diff/2/?file=1253414#file1253414line52>
> >
> >     Why is the cast to `size_t` needed here?
> 
> Alex Clemmer wrote:
>     It is required, and (though it has been awhile) I believe it's because on 
> 64-bit machines, without this type information, 1 could be one of several 
> integral types. The cast disambiguates.
> 
> Michael Park wrote:
>     I only see one definition of `::write` in 
> `3rdparty/libprocess/3rdparty/stout/include/stout/windows.hpp`, which has the 
> signature: `inline auto write(int fd, const void* buffer, size_t count)`.
>     
>     Doesn't seem like there should be any ambiguity here, are there other 
> defintions of `write` that we're contending with? Because `1` is clearly 
> convertible to `size_t`.
> 
> Alex Clemmer wrote:
>     There is also `::write` in the Windows implementation of the C Runtime. 
> To confirm that this is the problem, we can delete the `inline auto write` 
> you mention, and the compile problem disappears. (I just confirmed this is 
> true.)
>     
>     So, practically speaking, there seem to be two choices:
>     
>     (1) Delete the `::write` in windows.hpp.
>     (2) Add a cast here.
>     
>     Note that if we choose (1) we should probably then fork every file where 
> where we call `::write` in the code, and replace those calls with `::_write`, 
> as the former is deprecated.

I added a comment to the review for posterity.


- Alex


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On Feb. 26, 2016, 9:23 p.m., Alex Clemmer wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 26, 2016, 9:23 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for mesos, Alex Naparu, Daniel Pravat, Artem Harutyunyan, 
> Joris Van Remoortere, Michael Park, M Lawindi, and Yi Sun.
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> 
> Repository: mesos
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> Description
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> Windows: Removed ambiguous call to `::write`.
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> 
> Diffs
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>   3rdparty/libprocess/3rdparty/stout/include/stout/abort.hpp 
> 88b355e09f76f0412c74ad69556572f0079deb8f 
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> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/43416/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex Clemmer
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