Re: SInt64 and UInt64 problems with large values

FROM : Dave Rehring
DATE : Sat Apr 02 11:40:43 2005

On 4/2/05 1:00 AM, Ken Tozier at <email_removed> wrote:

> In lieu of using "long long" and "unsigned long long" in my code, I'm
> trying to use the more compact "SInt64" and "UInt64" both of which the
> compiler seems to be aware of , but when I try to give UInt64 a large
> constant hex value such as 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, the complier complains
> that "integer constant is too large for "long" type." I searched for
> the definition of UInt64 and found it in MacTypes.h where it is defined
> as "typedef unsigned long long UInt64" so why does the compiler not
> allow the maximum hex value? Is there some undocumented upper limit to
> long long values?
>
> Thanks


You could try using the 'LL' postfix to indicate the number is a long long,
like this:

0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFLL

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