Re: Size of default ROOT Long_t types is wrong.

From: Christoph Borgmeier (borg@mail.desy.de)
Date: Thu Sep 03 1998 - 15:55:45 MEST


On 2 Sep 1998, Fons Rademakers wrote:

[...]
> We would like to typedef Long_t to long long on 32 bit machines but 
> long long is not yet supported by all compilers. We plan to experiment 
> with long long soon.
[...]

Hello,

I am only curious, what -in a physics context- a 64 bit integer is good
for. Its range is:

-9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807

What would you store with it, if not money, pointers, or two 32 bit ints
;-)

Christoph


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