On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, Mike Stump wrote:

> 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.

There's no printf support (or other standard library support); you'd run 
into practical problems there.

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Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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