Re: xnews error "bits index out of range"
- From: Peter J Ross <pjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:19:36 +0100
In news.software.readers on 24 Apr 2009 18:32:19 GMT, Curt Welch
<curt@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike Dee <emteedee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As for 64 bits... when the day comes that I get a 64 bit 'puter and
OS... I might get to understand more about these potential Xnews
shortcomings :-)
It won't require an upgrade to a 64 bit computer for the newsreaders to fix
that. It's trivial to write the code on a 32 bit computer to support 64
bit numbers. All modern languages have built in support for 64 bit
numbers.
E.g., C has officially supported "long long integers" as well as "long
integers" since at least the C99 standard (1999), and they were
unofficially supported by many C compilers before that.
The bitch is simply that someone has to take the time to check
and change the code, and release the new version.
Already done in slrn 0.9.9, though IIRC the use of "long longs" isn't
well tested on Windows and therefore is switched off by default if
Windows is detected.
And if the 32 bit numbers
ended up in data files created by the newsreader, it might also require
writing code to convert the 32 bit based data files to 64 bit data files.
Perhaps I'm missing something here. Why should 32-bit numbers be a
problem for software that can handle 64-bit numbers?
--
PJR :-)
slrn newsreader v0.9.9p1: http://slrn.sourceforge.net/
extra slrn documentation: http://slrn-doc.sourceforge.net/
newsgroup name validator: http://pjr.lasnobberia.net/usenet/validator
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