--enable-long-long by default?

Haruhiko Okumura okumura@matsusaka-u.ac.jp
Wed May 24 18:05:00 GMT 2000


Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:28:54PM -0700, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a reason ["-enable-long-long"] is not enabled by default? 
> > 
> > If there are no substantive objections, I'll enable it.
> 
> "long long" is not legal ISO C++.  I suppose that as long as 
> "-ansi" or "-pedantic" turns if off, it's ok to default on, 
> but I prefer having extensions turned on when users ask for 
> them, not by default.

"long long" is in C99, and I can't imagine the situation where
enabling "long long" breaks any existing code.  I hope it's on by
default.

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