Thread: How to get past the limit of an int?

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    This is the c++ board not the c board. there is no __int64 type in c++ it is a m$ extension.Although it may well be a legal extension in C99 that still doesn't help the OP if hes using C++ as I suspect he is due to this board being used rather than the C board.
    Free the weed!! Class B to class C is not good enough!!
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    Either way, by your insistance that "it is a m$ extension," you exude an implication that Microsoft is the sole inventor, proprietor, and implementor of the __int64 type, while, in point of fact, there exist multiple C++ compilers with such support, none of which happen to have been authored by Microsoft.

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    P.S. Yes, there are oodles of biginteger classes available and yes, one will be present in the next C++ standard with a high degree of certainty, but I challenge you to produce multiple bigfloatingpoint number open source libraries (aside from GMP, of course).
    Last edited by LuckY; 08-07-2005 at 01:51 PM.

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    Thats not what I meant. Daveed mentioned __int64 for MSVC. Cant remember what the corresponding type is on most other compilers. Seem to remember borlands was _int64 but not sure. Its long long on gcc. The point was simply that by using it you end up with either brittle source or unportable source whereas the library will work the same on any compiler that can compile it. Tho with GMP you need to use gcc or mingw to compile it due to the asm syntax but you can build libs to target msvc.
    As for floating point libs theres a few....
    http://www.apfloat.org/apfloat/
    http://www.jjj.de/hfloat/
    http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/HARPOON/mpfun++/
    http://www.ginac.de/CLN/
    http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ringx004/mapm-main.html
    Free the weed!! Class B to class C is not good enough!!
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    Thanks for the links. I tried but was unable to locate such things (other than GMP) when I searched many moons ago.

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    Sorry that i didn't reply for a while, cause i'm in Namibia right now (i live in holland), it's the first internet cafe in a week. I love 28k internet speed . I use VC++, so i think i'll use the _int64 version and maybe if i need an huge float i'll use lucky's class. I think the links are also great but they all need about 5 minutes to load, so i can't really check them out.

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