Is there a 128-bit integer in D?

tcak via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun May 22 00:11:27 PDT 2016


On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 09:56:51 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 09:43:38 UTC, Saurabh Das 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?
>>
>> Alternatively, is there an any effort towards implementation 
>> of arbitrary-sized integers in Phobos?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Saurabh
>
> There is BigInt in phobos.

I think cent and ucent could be implemented as ulong is possible 
to be used on 32-bit systems by adding extra assembly 
instructions. This way, when (and if) 128-bit systems are 
developed, compiler would be updated only.


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