From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Really Huge Numbers
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:02:09 -0700
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Lord Daedron wrote:

> I wish to store
> the file sizes of all files packed in my compressed archive, along
> with the
> total of all file sizes.  Using an unsigned int ( I read this is same
> as
> unsigned long? )

In DJGPP and many Unix systems, yes.

> this gives me a maximum of about 4 megs ( any bigger
> numbers will overflow ).

You mean four gigs.  2^32 = 2^2 x 2^30 = 4 x 1024^3.

Four gigs is a lot.  Are you sure you're not just misunderstanding the
size limitation?

> Is there a bigger integer type or a class for
> stroing really huge numbers so I could install more than 4 megs?

There is a nonstandard GNU extention for the long long, which is 64
bits.  Or, you could always tally up the file sizes in larger increments
(i.e., only counting 1024 or 1024^2 byte increments, rather than every
single byte).

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