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Re: [pdf-devel] New 64 bit type for the base layer
From: |
Daniel Vidal |
Subject: |
Re: [pdf-devel] New 64 bit type for the base layer |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:51:42 +0100 |
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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