It was thus said that the Great ben once stated: > On 5/20/2016 7:19 PM, Sean Conner wrote: > > >> > >>Hehe, what is a long long? Yes, you are totally right. Still, I assert > >>that C is still the defacto most portable language on Earth. What other > >>language runs on as many OS's and CPUs ? None that I can think of. > > > > A long long is at least 64-bits long. > > Only if you get rid of char pointers you are portable.
I don't understand this statement. > I like 1's compilent because it handles shifting properly. Again, I'm not sure how this follows. Right shifting signed quantities is undefined because different CPUs handle it differently---some copy the sign bit, some don't. I don't see how being 1's complement fixes this. -spc