Coucou FX,
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, FX wrote:

uintmax_t is the largest of the standard unsigned C types, so it cannot be 
larger than unsigned long long.
That's a gcc property then. The C99 standard only guarantees that 
uintmax_t is at least as large as unsigned long long, but it is allowed to 
be some other larger type:
"The following type designates an unsigned integer type capable of 
representing any value of any unsigned integer type: uintmax_t"

On x86_64, for example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

int main (void)
{
  printf ("%lu ", sizeof (uintmax_t));
  printf ("%lu ", sizeof (int));
  printf ("%lu ", sizeof (long int));
  printf ("%lu ", sizeof (long long int));
  printf ("%lu\n", sizeof (__int128));
}
gives : 8 4 8 8 16
I am not sure how legal that is. __int128 is an extended signed integer 
type, and thus the statement about intmax_t should apply to it as well. So 
gcc is just pretending that __int128 is not really there.
Is __builtin_clzll available on all platforms?
Yes, we emit calls to this built-in unconditionally in the Fortran 
front-end, and it has caused no trouble.
Thank you, that's the best guarantee I could ask for about the existence 
of __builtin_clzll.
--
Marc Glisse

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