Re: Why "long long" doesn't work.

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From: Markus Freericks
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:10

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In article <aeb.809273431@news.cwi.nl> aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer) writes:
> There is no need to have integral types that are required to have
> more than 64 bits.

Hmm, IEE-754 FP "Double Extended" numbers (no idea how comment these are)
have a width of ">=79". It is certainly nice to have some integer type
large enough to hold your largest fp type!

-- Markus (besides, implementing large fixed size integers ain't _that_
           hard, and they can come in very handy, not only in 
           cryptrography and graphics ;-)

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From: mfx@cs.tu-berlin.de (Markus Freericks)
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Subject: Re: Why "long long" doesn't work.
Date: 25 Aug 1995 14:10:36 GMT
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