NightStrike wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Earnie > <ear...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> RSPsoftware wrote: >>> for years I was thinking that size of int and long would change >>> to 8 >>> >> >> The you'll find http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/64bit.html an >> interesting read. Yea, it speaks relative to UNIX but data is >> data regardless of the OS. > > This is a good read, too: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496995.aspx >
It's an interesting fact that long long on LP64 is non-existent instead of 128 bits or even equivalent to long meaning meaning that one must care to check for the existence of long long when programing. Earnie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public