cppbestpractices/05-Considering_Portability.md

Considering Portability

Know your types

Most portability issues that generate warnings are because we are not careful about our types. standard library and arrays are indexed with size_t. Standard containers sizes are reported in size_t. If you get the handling of size_t wrong, you can create subtle lurking 64bit issues that arise only after you start to overflow the indexing of 32bit integers. char vs unsigned char.

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