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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Portability of Arithmetic (was: Java vs Ada 95)
Date: 1996/10/18
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Date: 1996-10-18T00:00:00+00:00
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iNorman says

"Harrumph! What about 64-bit UNsigned binary arithmetic?  32-bit
arithmetic does not suffice for manipulating offsets into files larger
than 4GB, or for calculating the amount of space available on some
disks, or for timestamps accurate to the nearest millisecond and
spanning a range of 16 months or more."


Well if you are telling me that you have written applications that 
do all the above, interesting ... I sure have not seen many such uses
in the user code I have seen.

I am particularly interested in your comments on manipulating offsets
into files larger than 4GB, what operating system are you talking about
here for interest :-)