Wanted: 128 bit integers

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:57:03 Manu wrote:
> On 14 March 2012 02:37, Alex Rønne Petersen <xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 14-03-2012 01:34, Paul D. Anderson wrote:
> > The D language specifies 128-bit integers: cent and ucent. They just
> > aren't implemented yet...
> 
> Why aren't they implemented in a library for the time being at least, so
> code can compile and work?

I believe that what it really comes down to is that cent and ucent were set 
aside just in case they would be needed with no specific plans to do anything 
with them. So, they'll probably be implemented eventually, but they're 
definitely not a priority. And if you really need larger integers, then there's 
BigInt. Prior to the 64-bit ports of dmd (which are fairly recent), dmd wasn't 
even on any architectures that supported 128 bit integers anyway.

- Jonathan M Davis