[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#852839: [Help] How to fix type issue on 32bit archs in C++ (Was: Bug#852839: baitfisher: FTBFS (32-bit): mixes ::size_t and faststring::size_t)

[Andreas Tille]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/cmayer/BaitFisher-package/issues/7

> I think you should ask upstream why they have this horrific typedef
> instead of defining their own size type or using the normal size_t.
>
> ...
> 
> You need to make sure you use faststring's version of size_t. As a
> workaround, I think this will work instead of the line above (untested):
> 
>   faststring::size_t pos1=0, pos2, len=str.size();
> 
> It's likely there will be other cases of this though.

I've forwarded this to upstream GitHub issue #7.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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