RE: [boost] Re: Why no long long support in integer::int_t?

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-30 19:40:28

> Sorry, I wasn't very clear with my question. What I require is a way to do
> the following
> 
> boost::int_t<60> val;

Yep, that wasn't clear ;-(
 
> This however will be in a template and so the literal 60 will be replaced by
> some template parameter not known until compile time.  When I compile this I
> currently get compile errors as the int_t template does not support long
> long.  If I replace it with
> 
> boost::int64_t<60> val;
> 
> I get compile errors as int64_t is a typedef and not a template.

Right, sorry your question confused me...I thought you were talking
about the cstdint part of the library.  Looks like an extension is
required to do what you want.  It will be a tricky extension b/c
'long long' is not the name for the 64 bit type on many compilers
(MSVC and Borland use __int64).

Jeff