Re: 128-bit uid_t

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

n Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 09/11/11 08:14, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> gcc has it : http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fint128.html
>> (at least for 64bits)
>
> I'd be leery of any attempt to define a system type wider than
> intmax_t.

For sure but we could override intmax_t, intmax_t is defined at libc
level not at compiler level.

>Too many things will break.  It might be OK to use
> __int128 for specialized internal purposes (cryptography comes
> to mind), but not for common external interfaces such as uid_t.

For windows it is the only solution due to microsoft uuid scheme.

Bastien

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