64bit ints & Cygwin98 ok

Message-ID: <20011210002812.GF13586@blackrider>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13570

diff --git a/README.cygwin b/README.cygwin
index b90bdad..d87c99a 100644 (file)
--- a/README.cygwin
+++ b/README.cygwin
@@ -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>