On May 19, 2014, at 12:27 AM, Richard Sandiford
wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a better name than "wide_int" though?
Please, no.
> The main property of wide_int is that it has a variable precision, whereas
> widest_int and offset_int have constant precisions.
Right, I'd clarify
Eric Botcazou writes:
>> Well, I understood the distinction between wide_int and widest_int.
>> I just didn't understand what pdist did. :-)
>>
>> The difference is documented (a bit verbosely) in wide-int.h.
>
> Yes, but not really why it's not correct to use wide_int for the computation
> made
> Well, I understood the distinction between wide_int and widest_int.
> I just didn't understand what pdist did. :-)
>
> The difference is documented (a bit verbosely) in wide-int.h.
Yes, but not really why it's not correct to use wide_int for the computation
made in pdist (and whether the use o
Eric Botcazou writes:
>> This is the second part of PR 61084, which it seems I'd forgotten to post.
>> pdist calculates a wide result from narrower inputs, so I should have
>> used widest_int rather than wide_int.
>
> Is that documented? Because, if even you wide-int guys got it wrong...
Well, I
> This is the second part of PR 61084, which it seems I'd forgotten to post.
> pdist calculates a wide result from narrower inputs, so I should have
> used widest_int rather than wide_int.
Is that documented? Because, if even you wide-int guys got it wrong...
> PR target/61084
> * co
