Re: [bug-gawk] How does awk implement extremely long integers?

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

>> I assume the modified gcc has additional format specifiers to print
>> "long" integers?

It is not the compiler, but rather the library, that contains input
and output support.  There are extensions to the printf() and
scanf() families in -lmcw that support 80-bit and 128-bit binary
floating point, and 32-bit, 64-bit, and 128-bit decimal floating
point.  The integer support is as with C99: int, long int, and 
long long int.  There are no arbitrary-precision integers: that
is what -lgmp and -lmpfr are for.

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