On Thu, 19 May 2011, Earnie wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Tue, 17 May 2011, Earnie wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Not true: C99 requires a long long type. And your claim is not true >> of real-world LP64 systems. E.g. x86_64 (aka amd64) versions of >> Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and Mac OS X all have 64-bit long long (and >> not just with gcc). So does 64-bit Sparc Solaris. >> >> I am speaking of C here: a far-too-common error is for C++ >> programmers to assume that long long is part of C++, but it is not in >> the 1998 standard and careful compilers report it as a warning or >> even error. >> > > Well, that would go against the documented definitions linked to ablve
Which are ancient, predating C99. > for LP64 that have long long as undefined. Can you link to the C99 > definition? You need to consult the standard, which you buy from ISO. > 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 > -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
