#include <values.h>
#define BITSPERCHAR	6 /* to hold entire character set */
#define BITSPERLONG	(BITSPERBYTE * sizeof(long))
#define NMAX	((BITSPERLONG + BITSPERCHAR - 1)/BITSPERCHAR)
#define SIGN	(-(1L << (BITSPERLONG - BITSPERCHAR - 1)))
#define CHARMASK	((1 << BITSPERCHAR) - 1)
#define WORDMASK	((1L << ((NMAX - 1) * BITSPERCHAR)) - 1)

static char buf[NMAX + 1];

char *
l64a(lg)
register long lg;
{
	register char *s = buf;

	while (lg != 0) {

		register int c = ((int)lg & CHARMASK) + ('0' - 2);

		if (c > '9')
			c += 'A' - '9' - 1;
		if (c > 'Z')
			c += 'a' - 'Z' - 1;
		*s++ = c;
		/* fill high-order CHAR if negative */
		/* but suppress sign propagation */
		lg = ((lg < 0) ? (lg >> BITSPERCHAR) | SIGN :
			lg >> BITSPERCHAR) & WORDMASK;
	}
	*s = '\0';
	return (buf);
}