mariospr added a comment.

In D117238#3270125 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D117238#3270125>, @aaron.ballman 
wrote:

> Updated to allow targets to specify the max bitwidth. I was aware that the 
> x86 backend had issues with doing division on larger `_BitInt` objects, but 
> it turns out *all* backends fail to support `_BitInt(129)` or wider division. 
> Because division is a pretty common operation on numeric data types, it 
> seemed to be more user-friendly to specify that we only support 128 bits or 
> less. I tried to make it exceptionally clear that I consider this to be a 
> backend bug though -- we will support wider bit widths in the future once 
> backends have been fixed. These changes make that future path easier to opt 
> into.

Hi! I know this question might be very hard to answer but even so I hope you 
don't mind me trying 😇 ... do you know whether there is any estimation of when 
`_BitInt(N) / N > 128` will be supported once again in Clang? I'm not an expert 
at all on this topic (just registered here to comment! 🙂 ) but this hit us in a 
Chromium-based project which relied on `_BITINT(256)` now that Chromium 100 
updated to Clang 15. And while we're already looking into alternative ways of 
dealing with is (e.g. maybe using Boost's `multiprecision` module), it would be 
very interesting if we could get a sense (if it's even possible) on how long we 
could expect the current situation to last.

Again, I understand there might not be a clear answer for this at the moment 
but, since I'm no expert on the matter and I couldn't figure out myself the 
exact situation by reading this and other tickets in the tracker I thought, I 
thought I'd ask just in case.

Thanks in advance regardless of the answer!
Mario


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