[M3devel] LONGINT on NT386

Tony Hosking hosking at cs.purdue.edu
Wed Jan 13 16:09:01 CET 2010


That's because the integrated backed on Windows doesn't currently support LONGINT.  Someone needs to smarten up the code generator to cope with LONGINT.

On 12 Jan 2010, at 21:57, Coleburn, Randy wrote:

> Ok, so now that we have this LONGINT type, what else needs to take place for it to be useful?
>  
> I ask, because currently on Windows, LONGINT has same range as INTEGER.
>  
> Is there anything I can do to help?
>  
> BYTESIZE(INTEGER) =4
> BYTESIZE(CARDINAL)=4
> BYTESIZE(LONGINT) =4
> 
> FIRST(INTEGER) =-2147483648
> LAST (INTEGER) = 2147483647
> 
> FIRST(CARDINAL)=0
> LAST (CARDINAL)=2147483647
> 
> FIRST(LONGINT) =-2147483648
> LAST (LONGINT) = 2147483647
>  
> Regards,
> Randy Coleburn

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