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On 4/10/07, Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> wrote: > When working with size_t, you often end up having the need to express -1 as > it is used for errors. Then you typical use: > > size_t(-1) > > This means you are basically limited to 2**N-1 instead of 2**N/2. That does sound a bit better than using size_t and having to increment each offset by one. Since we're reducing the namespace anyway... > > In any case other parts of the interface present bigger issues, but > > this is one of the things that would be nice to get right the first > > time. > > Sorry for the confusion, but I meant that as an XS writer, I would also like > to have a portable way of saying I64. I know about U8, U32 etc, but I am > not sure if I64 or U64 exist. If not, it would be cool to have them. If > they already exist, nvm me. Ah. But that's another issue:)Thread Previous | Thread Next