64 bit architectures and C/C++

[Phil Howard KA9WGN]

msb at sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

>Now, what would we like to happen if a program that assumed 64-bit
>integers existed was ported to a machine where they didn't?  We would

How about coding it so that if a symbol such as "LONGLONG64" is not
defined conditional compilation will fall back to code that invokes
a bignum package for 64 bit ints.  Then simply -DLONGLONG64 will get
the good code.

I just picked LONGLONG64 not knowing if there is a better thing to use.
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