128-bit long long?

Scott Robert Ladd coyote@coyotegulch.com
Sun Mar 21 21:20:00 GMT 2004


Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Best current practice appears to be to provide an "extended integral
> type" __int128.  This doesn't have the problems of 'long long' because
> it's not a *basic* integral type (in particular, it cannot be used for
> size_t).

I always wondered why C99 didn't define both int128_t and uint128_t in 
<stdint.h>.

..Scott



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