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From: Prajakta on 13 May 2008 00:45

Thanks David

I tried using size_t b and the issue got resolved.
Not the code is compiling on both 32 & 64 bit windows.

"David Wilkinson" wrote:

> Prajakta wrote:
> > HI,
> >
> > I am porting 32 bit application on 64-bit windows.
> > I am using Visual studio 2005 for building the application.
> >
> > The existing code consists of a function call:
> >
> > LPDWORD b;
> > LPWSTR a = new WCHAR[(unsigned int) b];
> >
> > While building this code for 64-bit i get warning
> > warning C4311: 'type cast' : pointer truncation from 'LPDWORD' to 'unsigned
> > int'
> >
> > As the pointer size changes from 4 bytes to 8 bytes.
> >
> > Please provide me solution for this type of warning.
> >
>
> Prajakta:
>
> The solution for this kind of warning is to use the correct type in the first place.
>
> size_t b = 10;
> LPWSTR a = new WCHAR[b];
>
> Using LPDWORD in particular makes no sense whatever.
>
> --
> David Wilkinson
> Visual C++ MVP
>
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