Subject: Re: long long vs. -ansi...
To: None <is@Beverly.Rhein.DE, current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Andrew Reilly <andrew@zeta.org.au>
List: current-users
Date: 04/12/1997 10:30:37
On Thu, Apr 10, 1997 at 09:56:17AM +0000, is@Beverly.Rhein.DE wrote:
> Andrew Reilly (andrew@zeta.org.au) wrote:
> : > 64-bit integers as a native type.
> :
> : I would suggest that a struct {unsigned long; long;} would
>
> May I point out that you are thinking little-endian?
It's true, I was at the time, but my understanding was that
this would have to be in an architecture-dependant file
anyway, because some archs would just use "long" where long
was 64 bits. Of course on big endian machines you'd do
struct {long; unsigned long};
--
Andrew
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