[M3devel] LONGINT in frontend?

[Tony Hosking]

Target.Int is appropriate here, not LONGINT.
Where is the current 2Gbyte limit encoded?

On Nov 20, 2010, at 3:43 AM, Jay K wrote:

> How about we use LONGINT a bunch in the frontend
> instead of INTEGER? Either that, or Target.Int.
> I do think 32bit frontend should be able to target
> 64bit target, including declaring data structures
> larger than 2GB. (besides that the current limit
> is 2 billion bits, not bytes like it should be..)
> 
> LONGINT is easier.
> 
> I won't get to either for a little while, other stuff first.
> 
>  - Jay

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