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| From | boltar@nowhere.co.uk |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: What does the "L" mean |
| Date | 2019-12-06 16:30 +0000 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <qsdvn2$kms$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | <qs7npd$5jn$1@dont-email.me> <qs7o3e$5mt$1@news.albasani.net> <%cvGF.166637$2i5.80897@fx35.am4> |
On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 16:20:07 +0000 Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote: >On 04/12/2019 08:40, Paavo Helde wrote: >> On 4.12.2019 10:05, T wrote: >>> On 2019-12-03 23:43, Bonita Montero wrote: >>>> Am 04.12.2019 um 08:38 schrieb T: >>>>> Hi All >>>>> MB_ICONEXCLAMATION >>>>> 0x00000030L >>>>> What does the "L" at the end mean? >>>> >>>> It means that the integral literal is a long. >>> >>> 64 bit integer? >> >> Depends on the platform/implementation. In this case the constant is >> from Windows headers, and in Windows/MSVC a long is 32-bit even in >> 64-bit Windows. >> >> This is basically so because long happened to be 32-bit in 16-bit DOS 35 >> years ago, and MS used it a lot instead of 16-bit int (which was indeed >> unusable for many purposes). As a result, now they cannot change 'long' >> to 64-bit because they have abused it so much. >> > >At least, on Windows 'long' is consistently 32-bit. > >On Linux, as I understand it, 'long' is either 32 bits or 64 bits, >depending on whether the OS is 32 or 64 bits. > >This means that if you use 'long' on Linux64, and depend on it being 64 >bits, the same program might not work properly on Linux32. > >And if a 'long' is wide enough on Linux32, then on Linux64 it will >wastefully be 64 bits (ie. an array of 'long' takes twice the memory). > >(Suggestion: don't bother with 'long' at all; either use plain int (32 >bits on most relevant machines), or long long int (64 bits), which has >the -LL suffix for constants that need to be considered 64 bits.) #include <stdint.h> int32_t myint; int64_t mylong; uint32_t myuint; uint64_t myulong; Sorted.
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What does the "L" mean T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-03 23:38 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-12-04 08:43 +0100
Re: What does the "L" mean T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-04 00:05 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-04 00:32 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-04 00:33 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2019-12-04 11:11 +0200
Re: What does the "L" mean Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-04 01:14 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean "Fred. Zwarts" <F.Zwarts@KVI.nl> - 2019-12-04 09:39 +0100
Re: What does the "L" mean T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-04 00:51 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2019-12-04 10:40 +0200
Re: What does the "L" mean T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-04 00:56 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2019-12-04 10:08 +0100
Re: What does the "L" mean T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-04 01:20 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-04 21:46 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-12-05 01:33 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-05 15:15 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-12-05 15:31 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-06 10:59 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-12-07 03:55 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-12-06 23:38 -0500
Re: What does the "L" mean Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-12-06 22:36 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-08 21:33 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-12-06 20:44 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-12-06 20:52 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2019-12-06 22:20 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-12-06 16:20 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean boltar@nowhere.co.uk - 2019-12-06 16:30 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-12-06 17:50 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-06 18:18 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean boltar@nowhere.co.uk - 2019-12-07 11:57 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-12-07 12:04 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean boltar@nowhere.co.uk - 2019-12-07 13:05 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-12-07 13:16 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2019-12-07 05:49 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-06 16:36 +0000
Re: What does the "L" mean Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-12-04 13:47 +0100
Re: What does the "L" mean Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-12-04 04:57 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean "Fred. Zwarts" <F.Zwarts@KVI.nl> - 2019-12-04 14:41 +0100
Re: What does the "L" mean Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-12-04 15:06 +0100
Re: What does the "L" mean James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-12-04 08:55 -0500
Re: What does the "L" mean T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-04 00:34 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-12-04 08:28 -0800
Re: What does the "L" mean Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2019-12-05 09:32 -0600
Re: What does the "L" mean Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-12-05 10:03 -0800
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