Thread: Are double, treble, and so on declarations of variables, such as long long, allowed?

Hi

I was simply experimenting with the C++. I declared the factorial with two long's in the below code. It compiled fine and worked fine. Are double, treble, and so on declarations allowed? Please guide me. Thanks.

Code:

// finding factorial of n

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main()

{
    long long factorial=1;
    int n, i;

    cout << "Enter the number you want factorial of: ";
    cin >> n;

    for (i=n; i>=1; i--)
        {
            factorial = factorial * i;
        }

    cout << "Factorial of entered number is: " << factorial << endl;

    system("pause");
}

long long (equivalent to long long int) is an integral type in C99 (the 1999 C standard). It is not valid C++, but some recent C++ compilers either support C99 or support "long long" as an compiler-specific extension.

C99 specifies the long long type as supporting (at least) a range of values -9223372036854775807 to 9223372036854775807. This means, in practice, that long long is at least a 64 bit integer. There is also a long long unsigned type which, in practice, is also at least a 64 bit type.

IIRC, the proposed update of the C++ standard will support long long types (long long int, long long unsigned). If that ever gets ratified, "long long" will become a standard type in C++. Some C++ compilers support long long in anticipation of that becoming standard.

The standards do not specify an ability to use "long" repeatedly ..... "treble declarations" (to use your words) are not allowed.