Re: [boost] [integer] Recent changes introduced failures on many platforms

From: RenéBürgel (r.buergel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-22 04:25:31

Daryle Walker <darylew <at> hotmail.com> writes:

> ..But it seems that not every platform that doesn't use the __int64  
> types ignores the constant.  I copied that code from some other file  
> (I forgot which one.); presumably, that author couldn't find a  
> ULONG_MAX equivalent for the __int64 type family.  If there is one,  
> or a better alternative that never chokes on non-Windows systems, can  
> you tell me?
> 

at least linux/gcc has a constant named "ULONG_LONG_MAX" defined in <limits.h>