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Re:Best aspects of C by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:01PM (#25126116)
Just go for it. In the larger scheme of things, it's not that long until 128-bit CPUs.

I'm mostly kidding. But if you're thinking of representing nanoseconds since the big bang, the wait for 128-bit CPUs is not very long...

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Re:Best aspects of C by shakna on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:23PM (#25128394)
GNU has extensions to support 128bit number types [0] already, for systems that can handle it.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fint128.html

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