On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:14:24 +0100 Richard wrote:
RM> > Though I'm not sure we'd need explicit 64 bit types. (There is intmax_t
RM> > for the case when you simply want the largest available int type.) I
RM> > think the idea is more focused on explicit sizes for constrained types.
RM> > 
RM> I think that there is a need to make a distinction between the data that
RM> is carried in the snmp payload and between native OS values.
RM> 
RM> Surely uint64_t and int64_t are needed for holding things like Counter64
RM> values.

Currently the library uses a structure of two longs to hold a counter64. Once
we come up with a way to determine if a system is 32 bit or 64 bit, that could
probably be updated to a single long. Then the problem is how to access it
consistently. Maybe some macros?

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