On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 17:32, Mark Hounschell wrote: > Is it possible to have a function return a 64 bit variable using > > return 64bitvarname Would not it of been infinitely easier to test this yourself instead of posting this question? Sure, of course you can: unsigned long long parakeet(void) { unsigned long long x = 55; return x; } Works fine here. u64_t ought to work fine, too, if you want _exactly_ 64-bits. Robert Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/