Re: [boost] stdint.h

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-09-22 15:41:57

At 07:21 AM 9/10/2000 -0400, John Maddock wrote:

 >I've been hit bt the lack of 64-bit integer support for the
 >Borland/Microsoft compilers in cstdint.hpp/stdint.hpp, I've attatched a
 >version of these headers which includes this support, as an artifact of 
the
 >implementation the macro BOOST_NO_INT64_T gets defined if there are no
 >recognised 64-bit inegral types (this also fixes a buglet that
 >boost::int64_t did not get defined if long is a 64-bit type - even though
 >it was defined in global namespace).

Headers changed.  Thanks!

 >However this isn't quite the end of the story, because you can't use LL 
as
 >a suffix to integral constants, but have to use i64 and ui64 
instead.  The
 >C99 way around this is to use the INT64_C and UINT64_C macros to append 
the
 >correct suffix, it appears that the intent of C99 is to define these only
 >if _ _STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS is defined when compiling in C++ mode - should
 >we add these to stdint.h (suitably protected by #ifndef
 >__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS)?

Yes, we probably should.  Would you like to contribute them?

--Beman