Re:Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig
by bogomipz on Monday January 06, 2020 @03:55PM
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>"zig has native support for arbitrary sized integers."
I apologize if this is a naive question. Might you or someone else elaborate on where arbitrary sized integers are used or necessary in kernel programming? Don't they all ultimately need to get padded out for the CPU registers to work with them anyway?
I apologize if this is a naive question. Might you or someone else elaborate on where arbitrary sized integers are used or necessary in kernel programming? Don't they all ultimately need to get padded out for the CPU registers to work with them anyway?