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From: Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 128-bit long long?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <405DEB4F.4020604@coyotegulch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8765cykqws.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Best current practice appears to be to provide an "extended integral
> type" __int128.  This doesn't have the problems of 'long long' because
> it's not a *basic* integral type (in particular, it cannot be used for
> size_t).

I always wondered why C99 didn't define both int128_t and uint128_t in 
<stdint.h>.

..Scott

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-21 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-21 17:34 Scott Robert Ladd
2004-03-21 17:37 ` Andreas Jaeger
2004-03-21 18:02   ` Paolo Carlini
2004-03-21 20:27   ` Erik Trulsson
2004-03-21 20:52 ` Zack Weinberg
2004-03-21 21:11   ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-03-21 21:20   ` Scott Robert Ladd [this message]
2004-03-22  0:12     ` Paolo Carlini
2004-03-24  5:38       ` Richard B. Kreckel
2004-03-24  5:57         ` Paolo Carlini
2004-03-30  2:10 ` Jim Wilson

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