[M3devel] __int128 coming to gcc

[Tony Hosking]

On 18 Jan 2010, at 08:05, Jay K wrote:

> gcc 4.6 apparently will have __int128.
> How long until we have LONGLONGINT or INT128?
> Presumably we should have LONGLONGINT or INT128 to expose it?
> :)

Why would we not simply expand LONGINT?  It doesn't matter even if it is slow.  Then 64-bit can be expressed as

BITS 64 FOR [0L..16_7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFL]

>  Or, again, I should look at the arithemetic library...
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>  - Jay
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> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:01:13 +0000
> From: gcc-patches-digest-help@
> To: gcc-patches@
> Subject: gcc-patches Digest 18 Jan 2010 13:01:13 -0000 Issue 14091
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> gcc-patches Digest 18 Jan 2010 13:01:13 -0000 Issue 14091
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> [patch]: New feature __int128 type C/C++ for upcoming 4.6 for  review
> 255919 by: Kai Tietz <ktietz70@>
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> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:01:00 +0100
> Subject: Re: [patch]: New feature __int128 type C/C++ for upcoming 4.6 for review
> From: ktietz70@
> To: joseph@
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> Hello,
>  
> this is the recent version of the __int128 type support as gcc
> extension. Comments in parser for C and C++ are updated and complex
> type and tests are added.
>  
> ChangeLog gcc/
> ....

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