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authorTobias Bucher <tobiasbucher5991@gmail.com>2016-07-18 14:31:26 +0200
committerTobias Bucher <tobiasbucher5991@gmail.com>2016-08-05 20:18:31 +0200
commit291b6f16bb03c92fb383dfa12b8849808bace801 (patch)
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parent6cc49e51de7ea9b0cc4aff437975544233c57107 (diff)
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Comment on the casts in the `seek` implementations on files
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-rw-r--r--src/libstd/sys/windows/fs.rs2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/windows/fs.rs b/src/libstd/sys/windows/fs.rs
index 2683e57256d..4e6cef9a28d 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/windows/fs.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/windows/fs.rs
@@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ impl File {
 
     pub fn seek(&self, pos: SeekFrom) -> io::Result<u64> {
         let (whence, pos) = match pos {
+            // Casting to `i64` is fine, `SetFilePointerEx` reinterprets this
+            // integer as `u64`.
             SeekFrom::Start(n) => (c::FILE_BEGIN, n as i64),
             SeekFrom::End(n) => (c::FILE_END, n),
             SeekFrom::Current(n) => (c::FILE_CURRENT, n),