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Subject: Re: By the way, here is an instance where crafty's node counts truncate

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:25:16 09/22/99

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On September 22, 1999 at 14:32:00, David Eppstein wrote:

>On September 22, 1999 at 13:36:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>There is a problem doing this for me.  64 bit ints are not yet ANSI-standard.
>>If a compiler supports them, you can use them.  But _if_ you want to print them,
>>portability becomes an issue.  IE in gcc I can use %lld to print one and it
>>works just fine.  But that breaks other compilers.  If we can get a group that
>>can give me a working 'format specification' that works on each compiler that
>>supports this, I can perhaps #define something and switch the node counter to
>>a long long/_int64...
>
>What's wrong with
>
>void printlonglong(FILE f, long long x)
>{
>	if (x > 9) printlonglong(f,x/10);
>     putc(f,x%10 + '0');
>}
>
>?


That is fine for printing.  But suppose you want to copy it to a string
(ie using sprintf()) instead...  it just makes the code very messy since there
is no agreed-on format specification for 64 bit ints.

• Re: By the way, here is an instance where crafty's node counts truncate Andreas Stabel 02:00:04 09/23/99
  • Re: By the way, here is an instance where crafty's node counts truncate Robert Hyatt 06:53:00 09/23/99
    • Re: By the way, here is an instance where crafty's node counts truncate Heiner Marxen 11:07:03 09/26/99
      • Re: By the way, here is an instance where crafty's node counts truncate Robert Hyatt 13:25:44 09/26/99
        • Re: By the way, here is an instance where crafty's node counts truncate Eugene Nalimov 16:15:37 09/26/99
        • Re: By the way, here is an instance where crafty's node counts truncate David Eppstein 15:29:37 09/26/99
          • Re: By the way, here is an instance where crafty's node counts truncate Robert Hyatt 18:48:04 09/26/99
            • Re: By the way, here is an instance where crafty's node counts truncate David Eppstein 19:39:30 09/26/99
        • Re: By the way, here is an instance where crafty's node counts truncate Heiner Marxen 15:05:19 09/26/99

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