From: cremno@...
Date: 2015-01-10T13:03:30+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:67497] [ruby-trunk - Feature #10728] Warning for Fixnum#size to use RbConfig::SIZEOF['long']

Issue #10728 has been updated by cremno phobia.


I took a look at `fixnum-size-search.txt` and using `RbConfig::SIZEOF['long']` instead usually isn't the correct replacement. In many lines the size of `long` in bytes isn't of interest, the min- and maximum value of a fixnum is (see feature request #7517).

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Feature #10728: Warning for Fixnum#size to use RbConfig::SIZEOF['long']
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10728#change-50916

* Author: Akira Tanaka
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: 
* Target version: 
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How about add a warning for Fixnum#size ?

```
% ./ruby -e 'p 0.size'
-e:1: warning: Use RbConfig::SIZEOF['long'] instead of Fixnum#size
8
```

Currently it returns sizeof(long) which is 4 or 8.

However it is implementation detail and
it may difficult to define it in Ruby implementations other than CRuby.

There is a way to obtain sizeof(long): RbConfig::SIZEOF['long']
It works since Ruby 2.1.

```
% ruby -rrbconfig/sizeof -e "p RbConfig::SIZEOF['long']"    
8
```

So the warning is a migration path to use RbConfig::SIZEOF['long'].

Note that this may affect many code. 
So this issue may irritate many people.
fixnum-size-search.txt is a search result in gems.


---Files--------------------------------
fixnum-size-search.txt (7.03 KB)
fixnum-size-warning.patch (2.03 KB)


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