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Re: enable maximum integer type to be 128 bits
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- Cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:57:35 -0700
- Subject: Re: enable maximum integer type to be 128 bits
- References: <s0eac520.068@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:
> This enables forcing the internally used maximum integer types to
> 128 bits rather than the previous limit of the equivalent of 'long
> long'.
In addition to everything Joseph said: Please tell us what this is for
and why you think you have no alternative. I strongly suspect there
is a better way to achieve whatever you are really trying to do.
zw