Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Did you know > that recent mscv support a limited int128 (named __int128) under > 64bits (limited because it does not support divide)? It is quite > interesting in order to implement uid_t, gid because every user of a > microsoft system is guranted to be mapped in a 128bit integer.
An interesting idea. Does gcc have 128-bit integers as well? (I wouldn't like to have features in the msvc port that are not present in the mingw port.) But MSVC 9 does not support it on x86: it gives an error C4235 <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7e5yy2kb(v=vs.80).aspx>. Bruno -- In memoriam Georgi Markov <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov>