Re: [Boost-users] PATCH long long support with GCC

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-26 05:08:07

> It is the uses of "long long" instead of int64_t that are causing the
> problem.
>
> The following patch is a mechanical change that replaces all uses I
> could find into int64_t and uint64_t.  It also includes boost/cstdint.h
> where necessary.  However, this only changes headers.  It is not
> necessary, in my case, to make changes in lib/, because these are only
> compiled by Boost.Build; however, it may be desirable to change these
> also for some other reason.  I'm not sure about this.
>

Sorry but I pretty certain we can't do that: code that uses long long does
so where we want to overload or specialise on a specific *type*.
boost::int64_t is a different beast entirely, and need not be long long (in
fact it isn't always), your patches would break Boost quite badly for
compilers where long long != int64_t.

John.