On Sunday, January 29, 2012 14:38:41 Daniel Murphy wrote: > "bearophile" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > > Integer numbers have some proprieties that compilers use with built-in > > fixed-size numbers to optimize code. I think such optimizations are not > > performed on library-defined numbers like a Fixed!128 or BigInt. This > > means there are advantages of having cent/ucent/BigInt as built-ins. > > Yes, but the advantages in implementation ease and portability currently > favour a library solution. > Do the gcc or llvm backends support 128 bit integers?
gcc does on 64-bit systems. long long is 128-bit on 64-bit Linux. I don't know about llvm, but it's supposed to be gcc-compatible, so I assume that it's the same. - Jonathan M Davis
