In C++, you can cast uint64_t to int64_t and cast back. Data won't be
lost, since both are 64-bits. e.g.
uint64_t ui = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF;
cout << "ui=" << ui << endl; int64_t ii= ui;
cout << "ii=" << ii << endl;
uint64_t ui2= ii;
cout << "ui2=" << ui2 << endl;
and the outputs are:
ui=18446744073709551615
ii=-1
ui2=18446744073709551615
--Yingbo
On Jun 16, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Ephraim Dan wrote:
We have some big numbers, that we use "unsigned long
long" (uint64_t) for in our code.
Thrift apparently explicitly doesn't support unsigned integer types.
What are we to do if we do, after all, need to transport such a
number using thrift?
Thanks
--edan
