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"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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