Re: new branch in CVS archive

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> I created a new branch in the Octave CVS archive for your 64-bit
> changes.  The branch tag is branch-64-bit-merge.
>
> So far I've merged all the patches you sent for the
> src/DLD-FUNCTIONS directory and added an --enable-64 option to the
> configure script.  The default action is to check to see if pointers
> are 64-bits, and if they are and a 64-bit integer type is available
> (currently I check for int and long; should we also check for "long
> long"?), then use the 64-bit integer type for the octave_idx_type,
> which is defined in the new liboctave/oct-types.h file (more types may
> be added later).  If the tests fail or if --disable-64 is given, we
> revert to using int for array dimensions and indexing, same as we
> currently use.
>
> I hope to get all your other changes merged within the next week or
> so.  After that, I will merge the changes on the branch with the main
> trunk in the CVS archive, then make a new snapshot including the
> changes.
>  
Shouldn't the default behavior for now be to have this disabled by 
default, at least till its tested a bit more? It seems without either 
--enable-64 or --disable-64 the default is to enable it....

I'd also suggest including the "long long" class as a possible index, 
since there is no reason to exclude this codes use on 32-bit platforms 
even if it will be significantly slower....

Cheers
David




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