[LLVMdev] Arbitrary bit width integers

[Reid Spencer]

Chris Lattner wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Sandro Magi wrote:
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>>Generated code. So the memory used for the integer at program runtime
>>is inlined into the allocation point then? So if I define a local
>>variable of type 'i1024', it will allocate a block of 1024 bits on the
>>stack, if I define a struct with an i1024, it will be in the struct
>>itself, etc.
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>Yes, exactly.
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Unless something has changed recently, both of these i1024 examples will 
generate an assertion in the SelectionDAG somewhere. You basically can't 
go past 128 in code gen right now, AFAIK.

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>>Is there anyone working on complete support for this in the code generators?
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>Nope, not that I know of.
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>-Chris
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