Re: [boost] [integer] Implementing long long and others

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-24 09:09:17

Igor Mikushkin wrote:
> As I understand the integer.hpp does not support
> types over 32 bits at present.

Not true -- where'd you get that idea?

> I used this library in my work
> and I had to implement long long type.
> 
> I suppose it is not too hard to implement other
> needed integer types (like _int64, _int128 on Microsoft and Intel compilers)
> using types from boost/cstdint.hpp file.

You can use the following:

  boost::int64_t
  boost::uint64_t

I use these and date-time and they are well defined everywhere.

Jeff