c/9569: 8 bytes seems to long for long long int

[Joseph S. Myers]

On 6 Feb 2003, Falk Hueffner wrote:

> I still don't get it. In C99, this is perfectly legal code, and does
> what the reporter wants. It is of course documented nowhere, but I
> would assume that g++ inherits C99's long long semantics if long long
> is enabled. Why not this part?

C++98 is stricter than C90 about integer constants.  _Explicitly_ using
long long is one thing (accepted as an extension by the C++ compiler),
_implicitly_ using it (by having too large an integer constant without a
suffix) is another.  The behaviour may or may not be as intended; that's
for the C++ maintainers to work out.

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Joseph S. Myers
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