On Aug 12, 2015, at 7:43 PM, Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > Yes. And there are much worse problems, like many things not working > right if your HOST_WIDE_INT would happen to be more than 64 bits; we > cannot really shake those out because there is no actual system to > test that on -- but it also doesn't actually matter, because there is > no system to run it on :-)
Lots of systems support 128 bit types just fine, and one could use TImode for HOST_WIDE_INT, if one really, really wanted to. x86_64 I think is one of those systems.