On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 10:15:15AM +0200, Armin Faltl wrote: > > > DJ Delorie wrote: >>> Please forgive my ignorance, but can't one just define a 64bit >>> integer on a 32bit system? >>> >> >> Yes, but there's a loss of performance if you do that. >> > if one really is anal about it, use 'long long int' which is an 80-bit > integer on Intel
That's so wrong that I don't know where to start. long double is 80 bit floating point and going away (it was introduced with the aberration known as the stack-based x87 floating point unit)- > machines and they are handled by the floatingpoint unit, despite they > are real > integers (and, xor, shift, rot, mod, ...) No. Gabriel _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user