[PATCH] D73967: Implement _ExtInt as an extended int type specifier.

[Erich Keane via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

erichkeane added a comment.

In D73967#2653042 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D73967#2653042>, @keryell wrote:

> An FPGA programmer is hitting this issue from your unit test:
>
>   c++
>     signed _ExtInt(1) m; // expected-error{{signed _ExtInt must have a bit size of at least 2}}
>
> Why do you not allow a type able to represent `{-1, 0}`?

Our FPGA team didn't see any value in it, so we didn't propose it to WG14, so we didn't implement it here.  I'm sure a follow-up paper to WG14 would be considered, and if it shows promise/positive reception, we'd welcome a patch here.


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