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Re: Preprocessor arithmetic

Zack Weinberg wrote:-

> Either.  Think about cross-compiling from a 32-bit machine to a brand
> new shiny 128-bit chip.  Okay, this is less likely than cross-
> compiling from a 32-bit machine to an embedded 16- or 8-bit chip, but
> no less wrong.

Right.  In other words, we require arbitrary precision integer
arithmetic.  My understanding is that not even the compiler proper
does this.

What's the long term goal in this area?  To write a library to handle
such arithmetic, and use it in cpp and the front ends?

Neil.
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