[ub] [c++std-ext-14555] Sized integer types and char bits
Xavier Leroy
Xavier.Leroy at inria.fr
Thu Oct 24 10:06:53 CEST 2013
On 2013-10-24 06:35, Lawrence Crowl wrote:
> Having said that, my expectation is that programmers that care about
> [signed integer representation] also care about the size of the integer.
Not necessarily. Consider all the clever arithmetic tricks from the
book _Hacker's Delight_: most are independent of integer bit-size, but
most require two's complement representation.
> In that case, int32_t et.al. require a two's complement
> representation. The programmers that care should use those
> typedefs.
But they can't because these typedefs are optional.
> Net result, no change to the standard.
And no improvements for programmers who want to write portable code.
- Xavier Leroy
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