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Re: [PATCH 06/15] rs6000: Use rldiwi in constant construction


On Aug 12, 2015, at 7:43 PM, Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Yes.  And there are much worse problems, like many things not working
> right if your HOST_WIDE_INT would happen to be more than 64 bits; we
> cannot really shake those out because there is no actual system to
> test that on -- but it also doesn't actually matter, because there is
> no system to run it on :-)

Lots of systems support 128 bit types just fine, and one could use TImode for HOST_WIDE_INT, if one really, really wanted to.  x86_64 I think is one of those systems.


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