long long

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2012-07-30 12:24:36 +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> I suspect few people would get any joy if we extended the range from 32
> bits to 64 bits under Windoze.  I think I never passed a constant
> argument >100 to any _ui functions.

I don't think Marc mentioned constants. While I don't see a real need
for long long, I think that accepting an mp_limb_t as an argument for
functions like mpz_mul_ui may be useful because it is the basic GMP
type and some functions return a mp_limb_t (in such a case, the use
would typically be for variables, not constants).

And if there weren't MPFR, a signed type big enough to represent an
mp_exp_t would have been useful too (just like it is in MPFR).

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