Behavior of numeric::to_int() and numeric::to_long()

[Richard B. Kreckel]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
[...]
> And, by the way, the message above is hardcoded into CLN.
> Does this mean that CLN (and thus GiNaC) does not support
> 64 bits architectures?

Sure it does support 64 bit architectures.  I have personally used it on
Alpha and IA-64.

Note that type int is just 32 Bits on those architectures, anyways.  If
you are interested in more details, please consult the header file
cln/object.h where the line between fixnums and bignums is drawn.

Regards
    -richy.
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