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On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:22:43 -0400, Charles Sullivan
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>Many thanks to all who responded. Your comments have been
>very useful.
>
>For those who wondered why I needed long longs:
>My app makes extensive use of unsigned long bitmaps and bitwise
>logic. Enhancements to the app occasionally require defining new
>bit positions and in some cases I'm getting close to running out.
>It would be far simpler to switch to unsigned long long than to
>reprogram to use multiple unsigned longs.

It might be even simpler to switch once to an array of unsigned char
and never have to worry about type sizes again.


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On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:17:56 -0700, Barry Schwarz wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:22:43 -0400, Charles Sullivan
> <> wrote:
>
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>>
>>Many thanks to all who responded. Your comments have been
>>very useful.
>>
>>For those who wondered why I needed long longs:
>>My app makes extensive use of unsigned long bitmaps and bitwise
>>logic. Enhancements to the app occasionally require defining new
>>bit positions and in some cases I'm getting close to running out.
>>It would be far simpler to switch to unsigned long long than to
>>reprogram to use multiple unsigned longs.
>
> It might be even simpler to switch once to an array of unsigned char
> and never have to worry about type sizes again.

Thanks for the suggestion. However just the thought of all the
recoding that would require makes my brain hurt

Regards,
Charles Sullivan