[be] [bug #27056] Bibledit 3.8 does not compile on amd64

[Jonathan Marsden]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #27056 (project bibledit):

After looking through the code and that error message, I think the code in
windowcheckkeyterms.cpp and utilities.h is assuming that size_t is always
compatible with int.

However, in reality, for GNU gcc, size_t is a signed word, which is int on
32bit machines and long int on 64bit machines.

More specifically:

 (a) all the quicksort routines in utilities.h have a final parameter named
end of type unsigned int.
 (b) line 556 of windowcheckkeyterms.cpp passes in startpositions.size() to
this end parameter, and this is of type size_t, which is long int on a 64bit
machine.

Similar reasoning applies to the other quicksort parameters, which are
declared as being based on int in utilities.h, but are used by size_t based
objects, which on a 64bit machine are based on long int.

Lines 552-554 are:

        vector <size_t> startpositions;
        vector <size_t> lengths;
        size_t processposition = 0;

which will differ when compiled on32bit architectures and 64bit ones.  Is
that intended and necessary?


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