Size of default ROOT Long_t types is wrong.

From: Mathieu de Naurois (denauroi@polhp1.in2p3.fr)
Date: Wed Sep 02 1998 - 16:37:13 MEST


  Hello ROOTers,

 on the web page http://root.cern.ch/root/html/ListOfTypes.html, one can
read:

       Long_t ............. Signed long integer 8 bytes
       ULong_t ............ Unsigned long integer 8 bytes

 This seems to be wrong:

CINT/ROOT C/C++ Interpreter version 5.13.62, June 21 1998
Type ? for help. Commands must be C++ statements.
Enclose multiple statements between { }.
root [0] sizeof(Long_t)
(int)4
root [1] sizeof(ULong_t)
(int)4


  Is it possible to have 8 bytes integer defined inside ROOT,
corresponding to the int long long type?


Thanks.

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Mathieu de Naurois
LPNHE Ecole Polytechnique
denauroi@polhp1.in2p3.fr



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