http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50441
Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini at oracle dot com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |joseph at codesourcery dot | |com --- Comment #1 from Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini at oracle dot com> 2011-09-17 09:11:46 UTC --- The issue seems trivial at the <type_traits> level, but I'm not sure we want to do this right away (we have a similar one for numeric_limits and a preliminary patch sits on my machine): for instance I'm worried that if such types satisfy an enable_if in overload resolution, then must be handled by the code as any other integer (or floating point) type, and I don't think that with __int128_t and __uint128_t the full range of operations available for standard integer types is available. At least wasn't about a year ago. Also, I don't seem to remember such types are supported on all the targets. Moreover, when I was fiddling with numeric_limits, I remember Joseph pointing out the brittle status (in terms of specs, support, etc) of the 128 bits integer types. Maybe this has changed?