[LLVMdev] Large integers as first-class values

[Russell Wallace]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Russell Wallace
> <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What's the largest integer such that something like 'return ((a * b) /
>> c) >> d' works correctly on all major platforms?
>
> Twice the size of a pointer, i.e. 64 bits on 32-bit platforms and 128
> bits on 64-bit platforms.

Okay, thanks. Do I understand correctly that this is likely to
continue to be the case, so language support for large integers will
need to be implemented by other means?