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Re: enable maximum integer type to be 128 bits


"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:

>>However, there are two things you need to realize.  First is that
>>supporting 128-bit integer types involves nontrivial amounts of
>>overhead in the compiler, especially on 32-bit archs.  This is
>>something we'd like to fix, but it's a lot of work (we would
> basically
>>have to switch all of the constant-handling to use something like GMP
>>or MPFR - that's not out of the question, but no one has stepped up
> to
>>the plate).
>
> I don't mean to have support for this on 32-bit archs (as I already
> expressed a couple of times). On 64-bit archs, gcc already has almost
> all of the required functionality, so no fundamental work is needed.

How would you do a 32->64bit cross compiler in your model? 

-Andi


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