Re: [pdf-devel] New 64 bit type for the base layer

[Daniel Vidal]

Hi,

I include here a small document with a basic rough draft of the i64
type API to be included in the base layer.
Any comments or additions?

Cheers
Daniel


On Jan 21, 2008 9:28 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>    > architecture and API, specially the time management section.Since
>    > there is a potential need for a 64 bit integer type for the pdf_time_t
>    > and pdf_time_span_t  types defined in the time management section (to
>
>    Byte offsets (and probably also stream sizes) can also be 64bit.
>
> Right.
>
> Since we can detect the availability of 64bit integers in compilation
> time I would use the bignum implementation proposed by Daniel in the
> pdf_time_t internals only if there are not true 64bit integers
> available.
>
> Regarding byte offsets and stream sizes I think that we should use the
> bigger available true integer supported by the host: 32 or 64 bits.
>
>
>
>

i64_api.txt
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