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sisyphus1
Date:
October 11, 2014 03:27
Subject:
Re: Max int value
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AAB2357D9AE2418B87C509A836FAB780@OwnerPC311012
-----Original Message----- 
From: Father Chrysostomos


> What constant should I use if I want the highest number that can be
> stored in an int?  Is PERL_INT_MAX what I want?

Looks that way to me. I have various perls of ivtypes 'long' (32-bit and 
64-bit) and 'long long' (64-bit). PERL_INT_MAX is always 2147483647, which 
is the max value that can be held by the C int type of the respective 
compilers that built those perls.

Cheers,
Rob 


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