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[Bo Thorsen <bo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm working on getting rid of the compiler warnings on 64 bit Windows.

There are literally thousands of places, where we store a size_t in an 
int, and the compiler warns about possible loss of data.

I'm trying to figure out how to handle this in the best way, and I need 
a bit of advice on how to proceed.

First, is it acceptable to change all/most of these vars from int to 
size_t? In places where there is a local variable that stores the 
difference between two pointers, it's fine. But what about places like 
struct z_stream_s in zlib.h?

How do you guys prefer to see patches on this - one big patch, or 
several smaller patches?

Bo Thorsen.
Monty Program AB.

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