Is there a 128-bit integer in D?

Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat May 21 18:41:09 PDT 2016


On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 21:51:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, May 21, 2016 09:43:38 Saurabh Das via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> I see that 'cent' and 'ucent' are reserved for future use but 
>> not yet implemented. Does anyone have a working implementation 
>> of these types?
>
> The keywords are reserved for future use not in current use. 
> So, no, there are no 128-bit integer types in D currently. It's 
> just that we left the door open for ourselves to add them later 
> without breaking programs due to having to create a new keyword.
>
>> Alternatively, is there an any effort towards implementation 
>> of arbitrary-sized integers in Phobos?
>
> We've had that for years. It's BigInt in std.bigint.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Thankyou. I'll have a look at that.

Saurabh


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