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General => General discussions => Topic started by: Jebbs on March 23, 2014, 07:42:48 pm

Title: VertexArray's getVertexCount not size_t?
Post by: Jebbs on March 23, 2014, 07:42:48 pm

I opened this here instead of Feature Request because I am more curious than anything else, but I always wondered why getVertexCount returned an unsigned integer instead of a size_t.

I mean, I get that 4 million verticies is a lot already, but it just seems like using a size_t in this case, as well as in the RenderTarget's vertex draw method, makes a lot more sense in my opinion.

P.S.

Sorry if this was asked before. I did do some googling, but couldn't find anything related to this.

Title: Re: VertexArray's getVertexCount not size_t?
Post by: Laurent on March 23, 2014, 07:48:29 pm

If I remember correctly, it's for consistency with other classes/functions. And the maximum of a 32-bits unsigned integer is 4 billions, not millions ;)

Title: Re: VertexArray's getVertexCount not size_t?
Post by: Jebbs on March 23, 2014, 07:56:13 pm

Quote from: Laurent on March 23, 2014, 07:48:29 pm

And the maximum of a 32-bits unsigned integer is 4 billions, not millions ;)

Oh yeah. My bad. :P

Quote from: Laurent

If I remember correctly, it's for consistency with other classes/functions.

Maybe I'll look more into this. Thanks for the answer!