support larger int types
Torbjörn Granlund
tg at gmplib.org
Fri Oct 14 18:45:22 UTC 2016
Victor Shoup <shoup at cs.nyu.edu> writes:
I agree that this would be a nice feature but that it is also
kind of a pain because of the unstable API.
Are uintmax_t and intmax_t also optional for C99 conformant compilers?
I don't think we'd improve things by trying to provide a full set of GMP
functions. We now have 'long' as the smallest type accepted as input
operand. That's fast on all but some 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs, so
providing GMP functions accepting a smaller type makes little sense.
IIRC, long is guaranteed to be at least 32 bits, so existing GMP
functions cover intS_t for S <= 32 by means of type promotion.
If we can trust uintmax_t/intmax_t to exist, then accepting those in
(some) GMP functions would be an improvement.
If we cannot trust that, we can do 'long long' instead for the C
interface functions. Since these types are very new in C++11, we might
wait a bit before we add them there.
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