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Message-ID: <45274206-ca94-2c12-c8e9-7e5d5991fa20@ispras.ru>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 20:09:29 +0300 (MSK)
From: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [C23 128 bit 4/4] C23: implement proper support for
 int128_t and uint128_t


On Wed, 31 May 2023, Jens Gustedt wrote:

> > It is
> > not supported on 32-bit platforms neither by GCC nor by LLVM. On 64-bit
> > platforms it is piggy-backing on double-word operations support required
> > for implementing 64-bit 'long long' on 32-bit platforms.
> 
> So what? On the arch where it exist, it is used and useful. (And I also think
> that implementations improved over the state from 20 years ago that you
> describe.)

Sorry, I'm not sure what you meant in the parenthetical statement. Improved
in what sense?

Alexander

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