[patch] change specific int128 -> generic intN
DJ Delorie
dj@redhat.com
Fri May 9 18:29:00 GMT 2014
> Well, it wasn't a hard requirement, it is just that the library has
> to use a more complicated way to get the precision (use (unsigned
> TYPE)(-1) to get the unsigned max and compute the precision from
> that, probably).
We could define macros for the precision too, and we already know max
and min values as macros, it's "just a matter of" exporting that info
to the C++ headers somehow.
> > Would it be acceptable for the compiler to always define a set of
> > macros for each of the intN types?
>
> What set of macros do you have in mind?
In general, I meant. They'd be predefined for pretty much every
compile, not just the C++ headers.
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