Author: Peter W. Gillgasch
Date: 17:47:57 01/15/98
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On January 15, 1998 at 18:33:13, Carsten Kossendey wrote: >On January 15, 1998 at 16:41:34, William Bryant wrote: > >>Because Metrowerks PPC Compilers now support a long long data type > >Where have you been for the last year or so? This is pretty old news. > >>(64 bit integer type), shouldn't most of the port of Crafty simply >>be recompiling the program and making the integers all 64 bits. > >Integers in Crafty are 32 bits. BITBOARDs are 64 bits. > >>As I understand it, isn't crafty written in ANSI C. It is not. "long long" and "__int64" are *far* from ANSI... Probably no single module of Crafty is ANSI C... >Mostly, but Metrowerks violates all kinds of standards, FAME ON... It implements ANSI C *perfectly*. You don't know what you are talking about. and it's pretty >buggy too. It is rock solid. In fact the most solid compiler I have ever seen. >You can get the whole thing to compile and link within a few >hours, but it still won't run correctly. I guess that this is not the problem of the compiler ;) I once found a bug in CW8 (I think) and John McEnerny emailed me a fixed version 4 hours after sending him a note with the offending source and the disassembled output... It is the most amazing C dev system I ever saw, damn it. -- Peter
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