Question

Is there a good way to modify a class in C++ so that its integers are 64-bit on a 64-bit system and 32-bit for 32-bit systems? Is there a way to check for that?

The class is something like:

class B{
      public:
            int64_t size();
      private:
            int64_t m_size();
}

Answer 1

If you really want exactly what you said (32-bit on 32-bit and 64-bit on 64-bit) you’ll need to use macros.

But what you probably want instead is to just use size_t.

EDIT:

size_t is guaranteed to be large enough to size any object and index any array. And as such, it is usually 32-bits on 32-bit and 64-bits on 64-bit. So it probably does exactly what you want.