Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 1998 18:01:27 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id:	<199804020201.SAA18699@adit.ap.net>
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	Federico Spinazzi <federico AT SysPr03 DOT disat DOT unimi DOT it>
From:	Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject:	Re: Why won't this work?
Cc:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, Nicolas Blais <eletech AT netrover DOT com>,
	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 02:56  4/1/1998 +0200, Federico Spinazzi wrote:

>When DJGPP'll have 64-bit words, you'll be alble to loop it 22222222222222
>times in a single for() (using double will slow CPU with no coprocessor).
>In the mean time you can nest loop one into each other.

Actually, you can do that already, with the `long long' type. But since the
386 has only a 32-bit address space, using a number larger than 2^32 as an
array index is impossible.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net

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