Re: Re: Re: Re: Perl printing long long types

You are correct. You CAN get 64 bit functionality on a 32 bit machine. To do that, the GNU compilier uses long longs which are 64 bits. If all that is needed is 64 bit data, then use64bitint should be sufficient. Also, a re-compile would be necessary.

After the recompile, the quad packing will also be avaliable. A Quadword is just what is sounds like: four words. A long is two words, so a long long is four words which is equivalent to a quadword.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Perl printing long long types by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 03, 2003 at 15:36 UTC
...long long is four words which is equivalent to a quadword. That's pretty much what I thought, but the OP seemed to be making a distinction, and never having used a C compiler on a 64-bit platform, I wasn't prepared to come straight out and state that, hence my question:) Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Perl printing long long types
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 03, 2003 at 15:36 UTC

...long long is four words which is equivalent to a quadword.

That's pretty much what I thought, but the OP seemed to be making a distinction, and never having used a C compiler on a 64-bit platform, I wasn't prepared to come straight out and state that, hence my question:)

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller

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