Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: Morten Grouleff Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: long integer? Date: 17 Mar 1999 12:11:51 -0000 Organization: University of Aarhus, Department of Computer Science (DAIMI) Lines: 27 Approved: mailtonews@cs.au.dk Distribution: world Message-ID: <19990317121151.17470.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> Reply-To: Morten Grouleff NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.cs.au.dk X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 921672714 3129 255.255.255.255 (17 Mar 1999 12:11:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Mar 1999 12:11:54 GMT Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:11876 hagenh@gmx.de (Hagen Hannemann) writes: > Is there a way to use longer integers other than programming them on your > own? 64 bit unsigned would be fine for a start, but 32 bit signed are a > bit (sic!) short for several purposes. For the time being, no. Support for 64 bit integers is planned for an upcoming release. The following is from the latest internal development version of betaenv: (* int64 and int64u are NOT yet implemented; * the compiler allows variables of these types, * but no operations, including assignment, * are implemented, so don't use them. *) int64: (* 64 bit signed integer *) (# #); int64u: (* 64 bit unsigned integer *) (# #); You may be able to use Reals for your large integers. Reals are 64 bits and have 53 significant bits. Regards, -- ** Morten Grouleff: ** ** Earthworm Jim PC: ** ** Mjølner Informatics: **