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Subject: Re: 8 Byte Integer
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Date: 10 Feb 1998 13:43:42 +0600
In-Reply-To: Dim Zegebart's message of Mon, 09 Feb 1998 08:38:23 +0300
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Dim Zegebart <zager AT post DOT comstar DOT ru> writes:

> Michael Matczynski wrote:
> > 
> > I am doing a program that calculates prime numbers, so the bigger the
> > better.  Is there any way I can get a 4 or 8 byte integer in DJGPP?
> 
> Some weeks ago I saw an announce of djgpp-port of math lib which allows
> to use numbers of any size to do calculations. Unfortunately, I can't
> find the name of this lib, hope someone can.

  If you are using C++, there is `multiple precision Integer class':

info libg++ Integer
(probably it is libgxx for DJGPP).


GCC supports 64-bit integers (to be precise -- integers twice as long
as `long int'), see:

info gcc "c ext" "long long"