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Re: long long in 64-bit modes
- From: John Love-Jensen <eljay at adobe dot com>
- To: corey taylor <corey dot taylor at gmail dot com>, <gcc-help at gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:19:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: long long in 64-bit modes
Hi Corey,
(Sorry for the delay, I was out of town.)
> How does the long long type change in 64-bit modes for C and C++?
>
> Does it stay 64-bit and is deprecated for long?
My expectation is:
int - natural word size of the architecture
short - half the word size of the architecture
long - twice the word size of the architecture
long long - (if available at all) twice the size of long
NOTE: my expectation differs from the C/C++ standard as the constraints of
those data types.
So for a 64-bit architecture:
short - 32 bit
int - 64 bit
long - 128 bit
long long - 256 bit
That's my expectation. That's not what I'm seeing on the 64-bit platforms I
work on.
However, for me, an acceptable alternative is C99's <stdint.h>.
--Eljay