[M3devel] INTEGER

[Coleburn, Randy]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mika Nystrom [mailto:mika at async.async.caltech.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:13 PM
>
>5. Finally, is it the intention that LONGINT be fixed at 64 bits
>forevermore?  (See point 2.)  This seems to completely fly in the face
>of M3's philosophy.  (See Hendrik's arguments.)
>    Mika

My "understanding" was that LONGINT would be a MINimum of 64-bits, but could be larger on certain platforms.  For those platforms where the native integer size is already 64-bits, it could be possible that BITSIZE of INTEGER and LONGINT are indeed the same, 64-bits.  It could also be that on some platforms we could have 64-bit INTEGER and maybe 128-bit LONGINT.  Thus, the BITSIZE of LONGINT is both platform and implementation-dependent, but constrained to have a lower-bound of 64-bits.  If I'm not understanding this correctly, someone please enlighten me.
--Randy





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