On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 26 August 2015 at 13:32, Kostas Savvidis wrote: >> I sense there is a consensus that >> 1) the 128bit integer is emulated emulated on 64-bit platforms, not available on 32-bit platforms, and is not native anywhere >> 2) the long long int is 64-bits everywhere so you can *NEVER* do what the document seems to suggest one *MIGHT* be able to do — input a 128-bit constant >> >> To me, this would justify rewriting the documentation. > > I disagree, it is correct as written. There may be ports outside the > GCC tree where you can write a 128-bit constant (there may even be > some in the tree, I don't know). As a somewhat out-of-reach example, Cray's had 128-bit registers since the 1970s. So its about time GCC added them ;) (I never worked on one of those machines. One of my college professors told us about it after his tenure with the NSA). Jeff
