Long long & templates (was: Re: Loki's tricky templates)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@unitus.it> writes:

| Hi Gaby,
| 
| nice to hear from you!
| 
| regarding that other library which we both care about, Boost, I have just discovered
| that Peter Schmid had already discovered, independently from me, the present
| limitation in the size of numbers which Gcc can presently mangle (PR2364, PR2195,
| PR2196, and my PR2559).
| Now I have a curiosity about which I'd like to ask your opinion (I don't know if this
| is a classified topic): why the choice was made to limit for Gcc3.0 that size, at risk
| of an *apparent* (I know that long long are not standard but nonetheless...)

I don't think that was designed on purpose since the compiler do have
flags to accept long long.  It is more about bugs than purposely
decisions. 

-- Gaby