Re: Moving from C++ to VC++

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William DePalo [MVP VC++] <willd.no.spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Bo Persson" <bop@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OSN7UBecFHA.2128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Now I want a reasonable sized variable, let's see
> >
> > char - no, too short
> > short - no, too short :-)
> > int - no, too short
> > long - no, too short as well
> >
> > Now what?
>
> I hear you. I do. Really. :-)
>
> Frankly, in your shoes I'd just write use a typedef equivalent to __int64
> :-(

And herd a dozen such hacks on the dozens
of platforms you have to support? Plus hunt
all those definitions down when 128bit
processors appear? No, thanks.

> I have no good and objective reason to believe this, but I can't help
> thinking that at some point in the future that those who think long and hard
> on language issues will finally realize that this short/int/long _stuff_ has
> long passed its usefulness. Maybe then C++ will get types with guaranteed
> sizes like Java had a decade ago. Geez, how long ago was it that even
> Fortran had Int2, Int4, Real4 and Real8?

<mantra>
If I want "the longest integer available on
the platform, how does 'int64_t' help?
</mantra>

> Regards,
> Will


Schobi

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