A Happy and Joyous New Year to you. I am certainly open to it.
Would you like to flesh out a proposal for what 32- and 64-bit unsigned integer types should be in X10? (1) What should the operations be? (2) What casts/conversions/promotions are defined. Best, Vijay Jeff Kuehn wrote: > Jeff Kuehn wrote: > >> Has any thought been directed toward the addition of 32 bit and 64 bit >> unsigned integer types? (unsigned int, unsigned long) >> >> Regards, >> --Jeff >> >> > > BTW: Since I haven't heard a response yet, I'll point out that I am > aware of Gosling's argument against unsigned types in Java and while I > agree with his characterization that they are at times misused in C/C++, > I disagree with excluding them, as they are sorely missed for some > classes of applications, for which Gosling's suggestion of "using the > next larger integer size" is not appropriate. > > So, specifically, is there any chance of adding unsigned 32 & 64 bit > integer types to X10? > > Regards, > --Jeff > > Jeffery A. Kuehn > Senior HPC Evaluation Researcher > Future Technologies Group, Computer Science and Mathematics Division and > Scientific Computing Group, National Center for Computational Sciences > Oak Ridge National Laboratory > One Bethel Valley Road MS6173 > Oak Ridge, TN 37831 > P:865.241.6134 F:865.241.2650 > > "The ability to advance the leading edge of technology is > constrained by the ability to prune the trailing edge." > -- Charles Dickens of Stanford University > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > X10-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/x10-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ X10-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/x10-users
