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From: lance@eco.twg.com (Lance Kibblewhite)
Subject: Re: Portability of Arithmetic (was: Java vs Ada 95)
Date: 1996/10/21
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>iNorman says
>
>"Harrumph! What about 64-bit UNsigned binary arithmetic?  32-bit
>arithmetic does not suffice for manipulating offsets into files larger
>than 4GB, or for calculating the amount of space available on some
>disks, or for timestamps accurate to the nearest millisecond and
>spanning a range of 16 months or more."
>
>
>Well if you are telling me that you have written applications that 
>do all the above, interesting ... I sure have not seen many such uses
>in the user code I have seen.
>
>I am particularly interested in your comments on manipulating offsets
>into files larger than 4GB, what operating system are you talking about
>here for interest :-)
>

Windows NT, with NTFS for instance. and Visual C++ does includes the
__int64 type for faciliate this.

Also Digital Unix.
-- Lance.