Re: [Quantlib-dev] building under x64

[Mark j. <mar...@gm...>]

As far as I can tell the type of Size is

const unsigned __int64

I am never very keen on using code with __ in it. What do you think?

Mark


2009/3/4 Luigi Ballabio <lui...@gm...>:
> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 17:00 +1100, Mark joshi wrote:
>> OK i've committed a new version that works with x64.
>
> Good, thanks.
>
>> I've added a preprocessor macro x64 to indicate that building is under x64.
>>
>> I've removed the default value for the null template and added
>> specializations for array and IntervalPrice.
>> I've put the specializations for these in their header files rather
>> than in null.hpp since this makes more
>> sense from a levelization viewpoint (and I couldn't get it to compile
>> with them null.hpp.)
>
> True. I've just moved the Date specialization to date.hpp as well.
>
>
>> I've also added a specialization under x64 only for Size.
>
> This works, but I'm still curious about what native type Size actually
> is (it's typedef to size_t, but that's not native either.)  I'd rather
> specialize the template for the native type, to reduce the risk of
> conflicts between specializations.  May you run the preprocessor on
> types.hpp and see how size_t is defined?  I don't know how to do it from
> the IDE---you'll probably have to call the x64 compiler from the command
> line (see <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x4d2c09s.aspx>) as
>
> cd path/to/QuantLib
> cl /E /I. /Ipath/to/boost ql\types.hpp > types.pp
>
> You'll get a truckload of code. After that, look for size_t in types.pp.
>
>
>> I'll look into dealing with the lexical_cast issue.
>
> Ok, thanks.
>
> Luigi
>
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