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• That implies... (Score:2)

  by AndyArmstrong (7200)

  ...that you're trying to move a long long between C and Perl. Do you need to do that? Can't the long longs just live inside the C?

  It's probably not too hard to write the code to thunk between long long and Math::BigInt - would that help?
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    I don't know since my C and XS skills are so poor. The relevant bit of XS code is this:

    #include "EXTERN.h"
    #include "perl.h"
    #include "XSUB.h"
    #include <stdbool.h>
    
    #include "ppport.h"
    
    /* This function calculates (ab)%c */
    int modulo(int a,int b,int c){
        long long x=1,y=a; // long long is taken to avoid overflow
                           // of intermediate results
        // skipping implementation
    }
    
    /* this function calculates (a*b
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by renodino (6856)

      If (and its a big if) you need the full 64 bit input, might I suggest passing the number as a string/PV, then doing a strtoll() or its equivalent in your non-XS functions ?

      Then your XS looks like:

      void Miller(char *p, int iteration)

      and the Miller function becomes

      bool Miller(char *p_as_str,int iteration){
          long long p = stroll(p_as_str);
          if(p<2){

      Caveat: obviously, if you put something other than a number in p_as_str, things will go awry. Also, different platforms (e.
      • Re:That implies... (Score:1)

        by renodino (6856) on 2008.02.23 16:52 (#61275) Homepage Journal

        DOH! That should be strtoll()...

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