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From:	Paul Shirley <Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Fixed point math
Date:	Tue, 25 Jun 1996 20:26:24 +0100
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In article <Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 94 DOT 960625013434 DOT 2111A-100000 AT zippy>, Samuel
Vincent <svincent AT cs DOT sonoma DOT edu> writes
>I am curious.  Is there any reason long long ints are not used for fixed
>point math?  It would provide 64 bits of precision..  Making a 32.32
>possible...

Because djgpp generates calls to lib functions for them, as I discovered
while trying to cajole gcc into doing a */ sequence via a 64 bit
intermediate result :()

-- 
Paul Shirley

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