Thank you for your answers Vincent TORRI On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote: > I stand corrected for C99! :-) > > (I use C from 1985 to 1990. After I switched to C++ in 1990, I've not gone > back to C.) > > Not true for C++98. > > $ g++ -std=c99 -c longlong.cpp > cc1plus: warning: "-std=c99" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++ > longlong.cpp:1: error: integer constant is too large for "long" type > > --Eljay > >