Re: Visual Studio 2005 x64 mode.

stevensmith1010@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Dave,
the problem is I have a very huge code and to manually go and change
to __int64 would be very tedious....so thats why was thinking if there
are some kind of compiler switches to force ints as __int64's...?

Nope. In an intuitive world, "long" would be 64 bits in a 64-bit
compilation, as it is in gcc, but Microsoft decided we were all too stupid
to handle that. In my opinion, that was a huge mistake.
--
Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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