Re: C compiler supporting arbitrary bit width integral datatypes?

"Harold Aptroot" <harold.aptroot@gmail.com>
Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:48:08 +0200

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From: "Harold Aptroot" <harold.aptroot@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:48:08 +0200
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 09-06-028
Keywords: C, architecture
Posted-Date: 09 Jun 2009 05:31:23 EDT

<ihusar@fit.vutbr.cz> wrote in message news:09-06-028@comp.compilers...
> [...]
> I would need some C compiler, that supports arbitrary bit-width
> integers.
> [...]
> Have you heard or read about such compiler? (any references would be
> useful)
> [...]


LLVM supports "really big integers of arbitrary length" but places size
restrictions on values being returned from funtions (looks like twice the
size of a register)
I don't know how much of that is exposed through its C frontend, but it
might at least be worth a look.


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