<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">C’s promotion rules are unfortunate for almost everything :-). <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>plus:</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">2) Go for strict equivalent with no promotion rules, requiring everything to be explicit.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>suggest that we would have a significant number of users of _ExtInt with 32 or 64 bit width. I'd cheerfully replace uint64_t with _ExtInt(64) (or however it's spelled) everywhere.</div><div><br></div><div>I also know of an isa which would have loved a twelve bit integer as an argument to an intrinsic as the instruction itself did 12 bit wrapping arithmetic.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div></div></div>
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