• bearophile (8/8) Jan 09 2011 From a recent update in File I've seen that size() returns an ulong, giv...
• spir (11/19) Jan 09 2011 n by seek():
• Jonathan M Davis (6/18) Jan 09 2011 Well, create a bug report then. fseek() does appear to take a long, so i...

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

From a recent update in File I've seen that size() returns an ulong, given by
seek():
http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d?rev=2284#L585
http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d?rev=2284#L1245

It uses fseek, that seems to return a signed value:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/ftell/

Isn't it better and safer if those functions of File return a long instead of
an ulong?

Bye,
bearophile

spir <denis.spir gmail.com> writes:

On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:29:47 -0500
bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> wrote:

 From a recent update in File I've seen that size() returns an ulong, give=

n by seek():
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d?r=

ev=3D2284#L585
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d?r=

ev=3D2284#L1245
=20
 It uses fseek, that seems to return a signed value:
 http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/ftell/
=20
 Isn't it better and safer if those functions of File return a long instea=

d of an ulong?

For any reason, I would rather expect sizediff_t (read: a cardinal).

Denis
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Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Sunday 09 January 2011 05:29:47 bearophile wrote:
 From a recent update in File I've seen that size() returns an ulong, given
 by seek():
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d?re
 v=2284#L585
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/browser/trunk/phobos/std/stdio.d?re
 v=2284#L1245
 
 It uses fseek, that seems to return a signed value:
 http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/ftell/
 
 Isn't it better and safer if those functions of File return a long instead
 of an ulong?

Well, create a bug report then. fseek() does appear to take a long, so it 
probably would make more sense for File's size() function to use long as well. 
However, given that it makes no sense for a file's size to be negative, I'm not 
sure that it really matters.

- Jonathan M Davis