How large are arbitrarily large integers? (Was Re: Bitfield subtlety)

[Torbjörn Granlund]

Richard Biener <rguenther at suse.de> writes:

  I would be surprised if that wouldn't work everywhere - any reason
  you have doubts?  To clarify, allocation would work like

   void *ptr = malloc (... + sizeof (size_t));
   ->_mp_d = (char *)ptr + sizeof (size_t);
   size_t *size = ptr;

Oh, I thought you suggested that we read malloc's presumed header.

Your proposal above is interesting.

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