Re: [Boost-users] Do boost run well on x64 platform with such warning?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Do boost run well on x64 platform with such warning?
From: John Drescher (drescherjm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-27 11:30:10

> I have a stupid question
> Now i build boost 1.49 on x64 platform with vc2005
> I find such many warnings: warning C4267: '=' : conversion from 'size_t' to
> 'unsigned int', possible loss of data  or conversion from '_int64' to
> 'unsigned int', possible loss of data
> I want to make sure that these warnings really do lose data whether or not
> on x64 flatform.
> Put another way, could these warning be neglected or should i  change the
> source code?

Just neglect these warnings. These would only be a problem if size_t
had > 4 billion elements. I certainly do not put that many elements
into my structures yet!

John