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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
To: Evelina Dumitrescu <evelina_dumitrescu@yahoo.com>
Cc: "gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 128 bit integers support in gcc
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH6eHdThEZR=EderYHBRDKsVYUBAFDaXvEq+4RMhPgZ-0f=xyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414056975.59023.YahooMailNeo@web160501.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

On 23 October 2014 10:36, Evelina Dumitrescu wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am working on a C/C++ networking project and I want to find an efficient way to store an IPv6 address. So far, I have thought on int128_t/uint128_t or __int128_t.
> I would like to know from which version of gcc are this types suported , for which platforms(especially IA-32/IA-64) and also if there are any known bugs.

See https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html
"Support for a new data type __int128 for targets having wide enough
machine-mode support."

I don't know about known bugs, try searching bugzilla.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-23 17:26 UTC|newest]

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2014-10-23  9:36 Evelina Dumitrescu
2014-10-23 17:26 ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]

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