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Re: progress on convert...

From: "Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>
To: "'TDS Development Group'" <freetds AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: progress on convert...
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:48:32 -0400

> From: Alex Hornby [mailto:alex AT anvil.co.uk]
> Sent: July 17, 2002 12:19 PM
>
> On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 17:01, Bill Thompson wrote:
> > To cut a long story short, I've decided to write a 64-bit
> integer library.
>
> With most compilers you can use "long long" for 64 bit arithmetic even
> on 32bit platforms.

Bill,

I'd say rely on "long long". There must be an autoconf macro you can use to
test for its support. If "long long" isn't supported on some ancient
compiler, just fail the conversion. We don't have to make FreeTDS work on a
Commodore 64, at least as far as I'm concerned.

Wonderful work, Bill.

--jkl

progress on convert..., Bill Thompson, 07/17/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: progress on convert..., Alex Hornby, 07/17/2002
- Re: progress on convert..., Lowden, James K, 07/17/2002
- Re: progress on convert..., ZIGLIO Frediano, 07/18/2002
- Re: progress on convert..., Brian Bruns, 07/18/2002