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authorMichael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>2001-12-09 14:28:12 -0500
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-12-09 23:28:55 +0000
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64bit ints & Cygwin98 ok
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@@ -191,9 +191,9 @@ more than one interpreter instance. This works with the Cygwin port.
=item * C<-Duse64bitint>
-I<gcc> supports 64-bit integers. However, several additional long long
-functions are necessary to use them within Perl (I<{strtol,strtoul}l>).
-These are B<not> yet available with Cygwin.
+By default Perl uses 32 bit integers. If you want to use larger 64
+bit integers, define this symbol. If there is trouble, check that
+your Cygwin installation is up to date.
=item * C<-Duselongdouble>