bigger longs (64 bits)

[David A. Truesdell]

peralta at pinocchio.Encore.COM (Rick Peralta) writes:
>Have you standardized your new seek?

It's not exactly a new seek call, it's actually implemented as an ioctl() for
the raw device.  Amdahl's UTS supports a 64bit "long long" so games don't have
to be played with arrays of smaller integers, as is done with select().

Now, if only people didn't write code which assumes a long is the same as an int
we could change the compiler to think longs were always 64bits, and a lot of
the current limits would simply vanish.


T.T.F.N.,
dave truesdell (truesdel at prandtl.nas.nasa.gov)

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