calc: jumbo sheets on windows (never gonna happen)

[Michael Stahl]

On 09.10.20 12:19, Mike Kaganski wrote:
> On 09.10.2020 13:09, Luboš Luňák wrote:
>> On Friday 09 of October 2020, Michael Stahl wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> On 09/10/2020 11:01, Michael Stahl wrote:
>>>>> POSIX provides ssize_t for this purpose but likely it doesn't exist on
>>>>> MSVC...
>> ...
>>> afaik the only relevant 32-bit platform left is Windows, and it's
>>> already rather restricted with big files because of how it handles
>>> embedded objects; you'll run out of VM at ~250 math formulas iirc, due
>>> to wasteful implementation of native OLE.
>>>
>>> so we could use a platform-dependent type for this and say, use 32-bit
>>> platform at your own risk...
>>
>>   I'm not sure if that's me or you misunderstanding, but this is not 
>> about
>> 32bit Windows, it's about all Windows. Telling 90+% of our usebase to use
>> their platform at their own risk is probably a really bad idea, even 
>> if that
>> platform is Windows >:).
> 
> That *would* be 32-bit-Windows-specific, *if* use (s)size_t, as Michael 
> suggested. (I agree with the type having different semantics, though.)

my actual suggestion was:

 > is std::make_signed_t<size_t> an option?