Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 15:11:10 02/20/05
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On February 20, 2005 at 14:16:57, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >Isn't the actual counting of nodes universal for all engines? i mean couldn't >someone write the "once and for all node counting script" for all to freely >impliment? Jonas, it is not that complicated. But the natural way to do it would be to use 64 bit variables. They are commonly available in modern systems. They are even standarized in C99. But many compilers do not support it in the standarized way. A multi-platform engine will need many code changes (no big deal, but lots of work, and when you are lazy ...). I could give some examples, that shows this. When you are not a programmer, I fear you could hardly appreciate it. And of course, you just could (and should) think of it as an engine bug. The author might think of it as a feature (that only is some aesthetical problem). The old way of using the overflowing 32 bit counters works everywhere without any problem. Regards, Dieter
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