Re: [Mingw-w64-public] [Mingw-users] thanks for mingw64

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

NightStrike wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Earnie
> <ea...@us...> wrote:
>> RSPsoftware wrote:
>>> for years I was thinking that size of int and long would change
>>> to 8
>>>
>>
>> The you'll find http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/64bit.html an
>> interesting read.  Yea, it speaks relative to UNIX but data is
>> data regardless of the OS.
>
> This is a good read, too:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496995.aspx
>

It's an interesting fact that long long on LP64 is non-existent instead
of 128 bits or even equivalent to long meaning meaning that one must
care to check for the existence of long long when programing.

Earnie.