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Re: HOST_WIDE_INT broken for x86 on mainline

On May 12, 2001, Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Why?  Surely the correct fix is just to have an arbitrary-precision
> integer library, optimised as appropriate for the native case.

This would require a lot of work.  A lot of code currently assumes
size_t and ptrdiff_t fit in a CONST_INT.  But it is certainly a target
to aim at.

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