Re: [PATCH] btf: support ints larger than 128 bits

2020-12-18 Thread Sean Young
Hi Yonghong, Thank you for the detailed review. On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 06:12:11PM -0800, Yonghong Song wrote: > On 12/17/20 7:01 AM, Sean Young wrote: > > clang supports arbitrary length ints using the _ExtInt extension. This > > can be useful to hold very large values, e.g. 256 bit or 512 bit t

Re: [PATCH] btf: support ints larger than 128 bits

2020-12-17 Thread Yonghong Song
On 12/17/20 7:01 AM, Sean Young wrote: clang supports arbitrary length ints using the _ExtInt extension. This can be useful to hold very large values, e.g. 256 bit or 512 bit types. Larger types (e.g. 1024 bits) are possible but I am unaware of a use case for these. This requires the _ExtInt

[PATCH] btf: support ints larger than 128 bits

2020-12-17 Thread Sean Young
clang supports arbitrary length ints using the _ExtInt extension. This can be useful to hold very large values, e.g. 256 bit or 512 bit types. Larger types (e.g. 1024 bits) are possible but I am unaware of a use case for these. This requires the _ExtInt extension to enabled for BPF in clang, whic