Arbitrary Size Integer Arrays

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Mon Sep 21 13:46:43 PDT 2009


dsimcha:

> I'm thinking it might be useful to have a library type that allows for
> arbitrary size integers <= 64 bits (128 if ucent is ever implemented) to be
> packed into an array.

I think LLVM is already able to represent and operate on such numbers (but I don't know how/if they can be packed, maybe not). 
Eventually I hope to see LDC start using some of the many nice features of that nice back-end.

Bye,
bearophile



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