Re: [Boost-users] [Threads] How to keep number of running thread constant, performing different operations

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:33:12PM +0400, niXman wrote:

"unsigned short int i;" - is 16bit variable. see here: http://liveworkspace.org/code/b88123920e184955e61aee9cc0c217c6

i.e. in your code variable "i" is overflowed.

I object to this statement. unsigned short is not necessarily 16-bit. It's inbetween char and int in size, possibly the same as either of them. Citing any implementation as a source of definitive sizes is flawed. On his particular platform, it seems to be 16 bits in size, but it sure doesn't hold in general. If you want a 16-bit unsigned integral type, use uint16_t from <cstdint> or <boost/cstdint.hpp>. -- Lars Viklund | zao@acc.umu.se