commRecv_Cuckoo()

[trachten]

Why does this receive longs when the constructor parameters are size_t's?

[novakboskov]

I assumed that long and size_t are of the same size (8 bytes on 64-bit platforms).
Do you think that I should have better written a size_t Communicant::commRecv_size_t()?
There are systems we want to support where narrow_cast<size_t>(long) would fail?

[trachten]

You shouldn’t assume that size_t == long. It’s not necessarily the case on other systems.

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