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Re: About Unsigned Long Integer Numbers

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From: Robert AH Prins
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:00
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In article <8imbh7$sn3$1@news.IAEhv.nl>,
  "Huub van Dooren" <hvdooren@iae.nl> wrote:
> khodrosazan heeft geschreven in bericht <394c81cc@dnews>...
> >Hi;
> >Is there any way to use some thing like C's "Unsigned Long Int" in
> >the BP7's environment ?
>
> No there is not. But you can use type  'comp' (64 bit signed integer)
> when you compile with $N+. Since C's unsigned longint is often used
> IIRC as a pointer, you can also use type 'pointer' if that's the case.

Yes, there is, it's called BASM, but you will have to write your own
TFDD's to do I/O.

Using pointers as unsigned longints is not the way, whatever they're
used for in C!

Robert
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