From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 128-bit long long?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403211918510.1866@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8765cykqws.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, 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).
Except it can't be an extended integer type within the meaning of C99
either, because the same ABIs also fix intmax_t to be 64 bits.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-21 19:21 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 [this message]
2004-03-21 21:20 ` Scott Robert Ladd
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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