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very simple question, I read that GCC supports long long int type. But how can make math operations with it, when CPU is 32 bit wide only?
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In 32-bit operating systems, the int type is usually 32 bits, or 4 bytes.
long has a minimum size of 32 bits, that's it.
int , long , ptr , and off_t are all 32 bits (4 bytes) in size. int is 32 bits in size. long , ptr , and off_t are all 64 bits (8 bytes) in size.
It takes a size of 64 bits. A maximum integer value that can be stored in an unsigned long long int data type is 18, 446, 744, 073, 709, 551, 615, around 264 – 1(but is compiler dependent).
The compiler will synthesize math operations (or use function calls) that use more than one CPU instruction to perform the operation. For example, an add operation will add the low order components (the low words) of the long long values and will then take the carry out of that operation and feed it into an add operation on the high order words of the long long.
So the following C code:
long long a;
long long b;
long long c;
// ...
c = a + b;
might be represented by an instruction sequence that looks something like:
mov eax, [a.low] ; add the low order words
add eax, [b.low]
mov edx, [a.high] ; add the high order words,
adc edx, [b.high] ; including the carry
mov [c.low], eax
mov [c.high], edx
And if you consider for a moment, compilers for 8 and 16 bits systems had to do this type of thing for 16 and/or 32-bit values long before long long came into being.
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