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From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
To: Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 128-bit long long?
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oeqq1acs.fsf@gromit.moeb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <405DB46B.80208@coyotegulch.com> (Scott Robert Ladd's message of "Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:27:39 -0500")

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Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com> writes:

> On a 64-bit AMD64 architecture, GCC defines long long as 64 bits, the
> same as a long.
>
> Given that certain 64-bit instructions (multiply) produce 128-bit
> results, doesn't it seem logical the long long be defined as 128 bits?
>
> I'm just wonder...

That will break too many "portable" software ;-(.

Andreas
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-21 15:35 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 [this message]
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
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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