complex number support

Doigt labog at outlook.com
Mon Feb 9 18:54:44 UTC 2026


On Wednesday, 4 February 2026 at 05:14:52 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> It's becoming clear that I cannot avoid supporting complex 
> numbers in the code generator for AArch64:
>
> 1. deprecating creal and use std.complex instead doesn't help 
> since we need to support old code
>
> 2. C has complex real and imaginary real types, which need to 
> be supported as well.
>
> I'm giving up and am just going to support complex types in the 
> code generator.

I know this is more work for you, but I'm not gonna lie, I'm 
quite happy for the added support even if I won't be benefiting 
directly. Though maybe now I'm gonna play with it as I tend to 
do...


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