Re: [PATCH v2] btf: support ints larger than 128 bits

2021-01-05 Thread Sean Young
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:21:09AM -0800, Yonghong Song wrote: > On 12/19/20 8:36 AM, Sean Young wrote: > > clang supports arbitrary length ints using the _ExtInt extension. This > > can be useful to hold very large values, e.g. 256 bit or 512 bit types. > > > > Larger types (e.g. 1024 bits) are p

Re: [PATCH v2] btf: support ints larger than 128 bits

2020-12-30 Thread Yonghong Song
On 12/19/20 8:36 AM, Sean Young wrote: clang supports arbitrary length ints using the _ExtInt extension. This can be useful to hold very large values, e.g. 256 bit or 512 bit types. Larger types (e.g. 1024 bits) are possible but I am unaware of a use case for these. This requires the _ExtInt

[PATCH v2] btf: support ints larger than 128 bits

2020-12-19 Thread Sean Young
clang supports arbitrary length ints using the _ExtInt extension. This can be useful to hold very large values, e.g. 256 bit or 512 bit types. Larger types (e.g. 1024 bits) are possible but I am unaware of a use case for these. This requires the _ExtInt extension enabled in clang, which is under