int64-buffer

64bit Long Integer on Buffer/Array/ArrayBuffer in Pure JavaScript

JavaScript's number type, based on IEEE-754, can only handle 53 bits of precision. This module provides two pairs of classes: Int64BE/Uint64BE and Int64LE/Uint64LE, which can hold 64-bit long integers without losing any bits.

Features

• Int64BE/Int64LE for signed integers, Uint64BE/Uint64LE for unsigned integers.
• Int64BE/Uint64BE for big-endian, Int64LE/Uint64LE for little-endian.
• Buffer/Uint8Array/Array/Array-like storage of 8 bytes length with offset.
• No mathematical methods provided, such as add(), sub(), mul(), div(), etc.
• Optimized only for 64 bits. If you need Int128, use bignum or similar libraries.
• Small. 3KB when minified. No other modules required. Portable pure JavaScript.
• Tested on node.js v18, v20, v22 and Web browsers.

Usage

Int64BE is the class to host a 64-bit signed long integer int64_t.

1import {Int64BE} from "int64-buffer";
2
3const big = new Int64BE(-1);
4
5console.log(big - 0); // -1
6
7console.log(big.toBuffer()); // <Buffer ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff>

It uses Buffer on Node.js and Uint8Array on modern Web browsers.

Uint64BE is the class to host a 64-bit unsigned positive long integer uint64_t.

1import {Uint64BE} from "int64-buffer";
2
3const big = new Uint64BE(Math.pow(2, 63)); // a big number with 64 bits
4
5console.log(big - 0); // 9223372036854776000 = IEEE-754 loses last bits
6
7console.log(big + ""); // "9223372036854775808" = perfectly correct

Int64LE and Uint64LE work the same way as above but with little-endian storage.

Input Constructor

• new Uint64BE(number)

1const big = new Uint64BE(1234567890);
2console.log(big - 0); // 1234567890

• new Uint64BE(high, low)

1const big = new Uint64BE(0x12345678, 0x9abcdef0);
2console.log(big.toString(16)); // "123456789abcdef0"

• new Uint64BE(string, radix)

1const big = new Uint64BE("123456789abcdef0", 16);
2console.log(big.toString(16)); // "123456789abcdef0"

• new Uint64BE(buffer)

1const buffer = Buffer.from([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]);
2const big = new Uint64BE(buffer);
3console.log(big.toString(16)); // "102030405060708"

• new Uint64BE(uint8array)

1const uint8array = new Uint8Array([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]);
2const big = new Uint64BE(uint8array);
3console.log(big.toString(16)); // "102030405060708"

• new Uint64BE(arraybuffer)

1const arraybuffer = (new Uint8Array([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8])).buffer;
2const big = new Uint64BE(arraybuffer);
3console.log(big.toString(16)); // "102030405060708"

• new Uint64BE(array)

1const array = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8];
2const big = new Uint64BE(array);
3console.log(big.toString(16)); // "102030405060708"

• new Uint64BE(buffer, offset)

1const buffer = Buffer.from([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]);
2const big = new Uint64BE(buffer, 8);
3console.log(big.toString(16)); // "90a0b0c0d0e0f10"

• new Uint64BE(buffer, offset, number)

1const buffer = Buffer.from(16);
2const big = new Uint64BE(buffer, 8, 0x1234567890);
3console.log(big.toString(16)); // "1234567890"
4console.log(buffer[15].toString(16)); // "90"

• new Uint64BE(buffer, offset, high, low)

1const buffer = new Uint8Array(16);
2const big = new Uint64BE(buffer, 8, 0x12345678, 0x9abcdef0);
3console.log(big.toString(16)); // "123456789abcdef0"
4console.log(buffer[15].toString(16)); // "f0"

• new Uint64BE(buffer, offset, string, radix)

1const buffer = new Array(16);
2const big = new Uint64BE(buffer, 8, "123456789abcdef0", 16);
3console.log(big.toString(16)); // "123456789abcdef0"
4console.log(buffer[15].toString(16)); // "f0"

Output Methods

• valueOf()

1const big = new Uint64BE(1234567890);
2console.log(big - 0); // 1234567890

• toNumber()

1const big = new Uint64BE(1234567890);
2console.log(big.toNumber()); // 1234567890

• toString(radix)

1const big = new Uint64BE(0x1234567890);
2console.log(big.toString()); // "78187493520"
3console.log(big.toString(16)); // "1234567890"

• toBuffer()

1const big = new Uint64BE([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]);
2console.log(big.toBuffer()); // <Buffer 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08>

• toArrayBuffer()

1const big = new Uint64BE(0);
2const buf = new Int8Array(big.toArrayBuffer());
3console.log(buf); // Int8Array { '0': 1, '1': 2, '2': 3, '3': 4, '4': 5, '5': 6, '6': 7, '7': 8 }

• toArray()

1const big = new Uint64BE([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]);
2console.log(big.toArray()); // [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ]

Browsers Build

• https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/int64-buffer/dist/int64-buffer.min.js

1<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
2<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/int64-buffer/dist/int64-buffer.min.js"></script>
3<script>
4
5  const i = new Int64BE("1234567890123456789");
6  console.log(i.toString(10)); // "1234567890123456789"
7  
8  const u = new Uint64BE([0x01, 0x23, 0x45, 0x67, 0x89, 0xAB, 0xCD, 0xEF]);
9  console.log(u.toString(16)); // "123456789abcdef"
10
11</script>

Links

• https://github.com/kawanet/int64-buffer
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/int64-buffer

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