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Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 16:55:45 +0200
From: Jₑₙₛ Gustedt <jens.gustedt@...ia.fr>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [C23 128 bit 4/4] C23: implement proper support for
 int128_t and uint128_t

Rich,

on Wed, 31 May 2023 10:41:29 -0400 you (Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>)
wrote:

> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 04:36:43PM +0200, Jₑₙₛ Gustedt wrote:
> > Rich,
> > 
> > on Wed, 31 May 2023 10:27:44 -0400 you (Rich Felker
> > <dalias@...c.org>) wrote:
> >   
> > > Unless the rules in C23 changed,  
> > 
> > They did change, this is what this is all about.  
> 
> Can you cite that?

sure, almost by heart, since I wrote that ;-)

  … with the possible exceptions of signed bit-precise integer types
  and of signed extended integer types that are wider than `long long`
  and that are referred by the type definition for an exact width
  integer type

> Because I don't see it. I still see that intmax_t
> has to be at least as wide as all the intN_t.

I seems that you read that the wrong way around.

> And AIUI this is the whole reason _BitInt was added -- to give
> implementations the freedom to add types larger than intmax_t.

Nope, see my other mail.

Thanks
Jₑₙₛ

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