Re: AW: [RFC] Adding division/modulo on arbitrary precision integers to libgcc

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri May 6 16:02:48 GMT 2022


On Fri, 6 May 2022, Matthias Gehre via Gcc wrote:

> > This proposed interface doesn't say anything about what aliasing is or
> > isn't permitted among the four arrays pointed to.
> Good catch. I would lean into saying that none of the four arrays must alias
> because allowing them to alias would require most implementations to allocate
> extra scratch space.
> What do you think?

Given that all four arrays can be written to, that seems reasonable (along 
with declaring them all as "restrict").

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Joseph S. Myers
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