cent and ucent?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Alex Rønne Petersen" <xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:jg26nr$29bh$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Hi,
>
> Are there any current plans to implement cent and ucent? I realize no 
> current processors support 128-bit integers natively, but I figure they 
> could be implemented the same way 64-bit integers are on 32-bit machines.
>
> I know I could use std.bigint, but there's no good way to declare a bigint 
> as fixed-size...
>
> -- 
> - Alex

There are no current plans that I'm aware of.  Implementing cent/ucent would 
probably require adding support for the type to the backend, and there are a 
limited number of people that can do that.

It's much more likely that phobos will get something like Fixed!128 in 
addition to BigInt.