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From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] go forth and ulong no more!
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On 22 November 2012 13:26, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:
> Just tell the plain truth - have I got this right?

That looks right to me, as things stand.

I thought that at some point sizeof on amd64 and other 64-bit machines
sizeof/usize will become 64 bits, so you can malloc and size gigabytes,
but then ... that needs ptrdiff, and non-trivial code changes. Ugh.
I've stalled for a better way.