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Re:A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ by saagarjha on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:52PM (#25319561)
Again, this would kill many loop optimizations.
Re:A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ by inetknght on Sunday December 06, 2020 @01:28AM (#25321594)
No it wouldn't. It would mean loop optimizations shouldn't use `int` as it's defined. It means they should use whatever other integer type _does_ do what the optimization wants. And if that means creating a new integer type then so be it.