Philosophical long integer question...

Andrew M. Kuchling akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Fri Mar 31 17:31:29 EST 2000


Ralf Muschall <rmuschall.fih at t-online.de> writes:
> Brian Kelley schrieb:
> > certainly would affect a lot of code...)
> It might break code which silently assumes that ints live in
> the ring Z/(2^32*Z) -- that's why I mentioned crypto hackers.

Such code will already break on 64-bit platforms.  

--amk



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