On 01/29/2012 04:56 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Sunday, January 29, 2012 14:38:41 Daniel Murphy wrote:
"bearophile"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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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
long long is 64-bit on 64-bit linux.
