Then the solution is rather to use --with-long-long-ints. I don't believe it's anywhere near worth the extra complexity of another runtime type just to use one bit differently, and that's even if the implementation work is disregarded.
How well does --with-long-long-ints work nowadays, btw?
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS
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2003-02-26 21:18: Subject: Re: 64 bit ints
Requirement for 32 bit unsigned ints isn't entirely small when it comes to protocols / data files. Might be nice to have non-bignum support for that.
/ David Hedbor