Understanding integer_cst

[Nathan Sidwell]

Primrose.Mbanefo@Infineon.com wrote:

> Does your expectation mean that TREE_INT_CST_HIGHs purpose is solely as
> a sign indicator or does this indicate that 16 can also be repesented
> even though sixteen would not fit in HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT bits?
The latter.

TREE_INT_CST have two halves precisely so the compiler can represent numbers 
twice as large as that supported by the compiler the compiler was compiled with.

thus HOST_BITS_PER_WIDE_INT is half the size of what an integer_cst can represent.

nathan

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