eichelbe@nadc.arpa (12/05/86)
I am running 4.1 BSD UNIX on a VAX 11/780 and have the vanilla C compiler
that comes with that system. A piece of source code I got from another
site (the author is no longer there) has a declaration of "quad" for
a variable. The first few lines of a structure are:
struct rcthdr {
quad rct_serialno; /* volume serial number */
short rct_status; /* status flags */
Thus, it looks like "quad" means an 8-byte piece of memory (INTEGER*8 ???).
Is there any way to create such a beast by using some sort of #DEFINE or
typedef definition? I'm only assuming that "quad" means 8 bytes, but if it
does it is consistent with VAX/VMS assembly language. I just don't know
how to represent such a thing with my present C compiler.
Any ideas? Thank you.
Jon Eichelberger
eichelbe@NADC.ARPA
P.S. I could create an array of 2 long int's, but the usage of the variable
in the code would probably not be right. I was hoping not to screw with the
code too much.
P.P.S. I am not on the "C" interest group list. Anyone know the group's
name? Thanks.lkc@hpirs.HP (Lee Casuto) (12/16/86)
quad is defined in <sys/types.h> and is indeed two longs. Lee Casuto Mail: ...ucbvax!hpda!lkc