n Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 09/11/11 08:14, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> gcc has it : http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fint128.html >> (at least for 64bits) > > I'd be leery of any attempt to define a system type wider than > intmax_t.
For sure but we could override intmax_t, intmax_t is defined at libc level not at compiler level. >Too many things will break. It might be OK to use > __int128 for specialized internal purposes (cryptography comes > to mind), but not for common external interfaces such as uid_t. For windows it is the only solution due to microsoft uuid scheme. Bastien >
