Re: lily: fix some type conversion warnings (issue 557190043 by address@hidden)

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> In LilyPond, the bulk of the warnings come from unsigned 64 bit sizes,
> ie. vector and list sizes.
>
> In order to cause an error, you would have to create vector or list of
> over 2G of 
> elements (on 32 bit architecture), so the unsigned size would be
> converted to a negative integer. Since our objects 
> are all larger than a single byte, there isn't enough memory for this to
> be possible. (The same holds for 64 bit, 
> except that you can't buy machines with that much RAM)

Reality check: my laptop is something like 10 years old and holds 16GB
of RAM.

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David Kastrup