Re: [boost] [config] polygon library long long, long double portability

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] polygon library long long, long double portability
From: Simonson, Lucanus J (lucanus.j.simonson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-25 15:51:24

Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
>> I use long long and long double in the configuration of my integer
>> arithmetic traits.  I'd like to guard those usages with boost macros
>> to allow the code to compile on platforms that don't support long
>> long and long double (replace with long and double respectively) but
>> I can only find a BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG macro (which is apparently not
>> documented) and not a corresponding BOOST_HAS_LONG_DOUBLE.  Is there
>> some other macro I can use to detect BOOST_HAS_LONG_DOUBLE or a
>> typedef I can use that is already set to long double if available
>> and double otherwise?        
>> 
> 
> long double is standard C++.  long long is only the
> the new standard.
> 
> You might also consider using boost::int64_t from
> boost/cstdint.hpp guarded by BOOST_NO_INT64_T
> 
> msvc has 64 bit ints, but doesn't call them long long.
> 
> In Christ,
> Steven Watanabe
> 
Yes, I realized that long double must be standard after grepping the boost codebase and seeing it used everywhere.  If we searched the archive we'd probably find I asked this same question in the past.  I might be a slow learner.  My code with long long compiles in MSVC, does is compile to a 32 bit int?  Specifying int64_t would make sense if my integer coordinate traits were in terms of int32_t, but they are in terms of int.  Perhaps I should change that as well.

Thanks,
Luke