On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Richard Chiavareli wrote:
>I decided to compile bpl12 under MSVC5 for the heck of it and play around
>with some of the functionality. With regards to the function
>char_to_room() I've noticed that there are several calls to this function
>that pass an integer for the location of the room the player is being
>moved to when the formal declaration of the parameter is room_vnum (which
>is typedef'd as a short integer). The compiler returns warnings on these
>and says that it supplied a conversion. Anyone know the reason why on a
>UNIX type system it doesn't give these warnings but on a WIN95 it does?
>I'm thinking that it may be a compiler flag but I'm just guessing.
Under Linux: sizeof(short int) == sizeof(long int) == 4
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