>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:
hpa> Alan Cox wrote:
>> On some platforms we do. But things like the x86 its good to have
>> to think about stuff like long long because it reminds you that you
>> are writing expensive to execute code and should maybe take some
>> time to work out a better solution
hpa> There seems to be enough cases were you would really like to do
hpa> this... we get this request often enough that I think it may be
hpa> a good idea after all.
We get the request quite often, most of the cases there was little
reason for doing the arithmitic on long long in the first place.
Jes
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