Re: Public header files

[John Calcote]

Sorry - I addressed this note to Jef. It should have gone to Ben. My 
apologies.

On 3/3/2010 12:16 PM, John Calcote wrote:
> Hi Jef,
>
> On 3/3/2010 11:53 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Jef Driesen<address@hidden>  writes:
> >
> > > It works fine for every system I have access too, but long long is not
> > > standard and thus not guaranteed to be present. So I just want to make
> > > sure it will work on other systems too.
> > "long long" has been standard for 11 years now.  It is irritating
> > that some vendors have apparently not updated their C compilers
> > in that long.
>
> While I agree that standards should be followed, I find this one 
> distasteful. I mean, "long long"? Is that supposed to be someone's 
> idea of a scalable solution? What happens when we have 128-bit 
> systems? Dare I venture: "long long long"? And please don't say we'll 
> never have 128-bit systems. We've been down that road before; we know 
> where it leads.
>
> Personally, I like the idea of using int64_t and uint64_t. The exact 
> same standard already defines such types for the more commonly used 
> sizes, and it is scalable.
>
> John