long long

Niels Möller nisse at lysator.liu.se
Mon Jul 30 22:53:00 CEST 2012


Torbjorn Granlund <tg at gmplib.org> writes:

> We could perhaps add a parallel set of functions (_ul, or _ull) allowing
> long long.  We should then follow the principle of "one GMP release, one
> GMP API" and reject compilers and ABIs without long long support.

I don't see much harm in making those long long features conditional on
some configure test. If a program attempts to use those feature and is
compiled with a compiler which doesn't support long long, then it's
going to fail anyway, for other reasons than gmp.

Regards,
/Niels

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