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Subject: Re: Craftys node counter - help needed.

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 13:21:19 08/19/00

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On August 19, 2000 at 15:49:06, tony worsman wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>When testing Crafty on a position using long time controls,   I've noticed that
>the node counter reaches 4-5 billion, but never goes beyond this number, but
>decreases giving a false nps.  As the search does not appear to be affected
>by this behaviour,  It is not really a problem.
>
>Is this a limitation of 32 bit computers, Crafty, or the C language,  not sure,
>I'd be interested to know the answer.
[snip]
The problem is that the C Language does not define a standard 64 bit int type,
and there is no simple compatible way to print a 64 bit int. One possible
solution would be to cast it to a double and print that.



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