Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Diameter Finally up to -07

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From: "Dr. Uwe Girlich" <Uwe.Girlich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 07:46:05 +0200
Hello list!

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:11:54PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> It's using "gint64" and "guint64"; at least at one point, that didn't
> work on SINIX (Siemens' UNIX), at least with the compiler Uwe Girlich
> was using.
SINIX-M (32 bit, runs on i386) wont ever support 64 bit data types. These are
old machines and only (wild guess) a 4-digit number of machines exists any more
in production state.
SINIX-N and SINIX-Y (runs on MIPS processors) is a 64 bit system starting
with 5.44A (current is 5.45B) but there are thousands of 5.43 machines out
there already and the tool set for these older machines has no 64 bit support
at all. We always try to bring the customers to update their system but it
runs their application, so what?

> Is it no longer the case that there are platforms where you
> don't have 64-bit integral data types with all the compilers people
> would want to use, or should we try to come up with some way to support
> them (e.g., displaying 64-bit quantities as raw strings of hex digits)?
The glib gives us G_HAVE_GINT64, so we could always check.

Bye, Uwe