Cent/ucent why should we implement?
Richard Andrew Cattermole (Rikki)
richard at cattermole.co.nz
Fri Aug 14 16:27:50 UTC 2026
Another monthly meeting has occurred, this time one of the things
I presented was for my PR to implement cent/ucent.
The reception was not the warmest, with questioning on why to do
it.
Does anyone have reasons for they may want it in language?
Mine:
- Some basic arithmetic can only be described using double the
word-size type, like with overflow, without using intrinsics.
- Atomics use it for cas
- SIMD types go above word-size.
Has anyone got any other reasons?
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/23575
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