I know that DMD doesn't support it, but it has been a pain in the ass to not have cent/ucent for me.

Adding support in LDC shouldn't be too difficult, as one can emit an i128 and let LLVM do the work. Would that be possible ?

There is a bunch of virtual hugs to be won doing so, and if you are in the bay area, definitively a beer or something :)

On 22 Jul 2016, at 23:37, deadalnix via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> I know that DMD doesn't support it, but it has been a pain in the ass to not have cent/ucent for me.

Kai has worked on that before: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1355

 — David

On Friday, 22 July 2016 at 22:37:46 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> I know that DMD doesn't support it, but it has been a pain in the ass to not have cent/ucent for me.
>
> Adding support in LDC shouldn't be too difficult, as one can emit an i128 and let LLVM do the work. Would that be possible ?
>
> There is a bunch of virtual hugs to be won doing so, and if you are in the bay area, definitively a beer or something :)

Out of curiosity, what sort of things do you do that would use cent/ucent?

On Friday, 22 July 2016 at 23:42:20 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2016, at 23:37, deadalnix via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
>> I know that DMD doesn't support it, but it has been a pain in the ass to not have cent/ucent for me.
>
> Kai has worked on that before: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1355
>
>  — David

<3

On Sunday, 24 July 2016 at 07:04:01 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> On Friday, 22 July 2016 at 22:37:46 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> I know that DMD doesn't support it, but it has been a pain in the ass to not have cent/ucent for me.
>>
>> Adding support in LDC shouldn't be too difficult, as one can emit an i128 and let LLVM do the work. Would that be possible ?
>>
>> There is a bunch of virtual hugs to be won doing so, and if you are in the bay area, definitively a beer or something :)
>
> Out of curiosity, what sort of things do you do that would use cent/ucent?

Mostly for 64 bits operation that can overflow. Like when you want the mulhi of 2 longs for instance.

On Friday, 22 July 2016 at 22:37:46 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> I know that DMD doesn't support it, but it has been a pain in the ass to not have cent/ucent for me.
>
> Adding support in LDC shouldn't be too difficult, as one can emit an i128 and let LLVM do the work. Would that be possible ?

How does this avoid the "fork the language" department?
I ask because I have a similar issue with vector operations
(https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1485).

On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 at 22:38:50 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Friday, 22 July 2016 at 22:37:46 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> I know that DMD doesn't support it, but it has been a pain in the ass to not have cent/ucent for me.
>>
>> Adding support in LDC shouldn't be too difficult, as one can emit an i128 and let LLVM do the work. Would that be possible ?
>
> How does this avoid the "fork the language" department?
> I ask because I have a similar issue with vector operations
> (https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1485).

I say it is for the better. This isn't forking the language, cent/ucent have been in the spec like forever. Having some competition is good.

And TBH, I think this is also fine for the vector thing. We can't wait for DMD to reinvent the wheel for every backend feature.

On Sunday, 24 July 2016 at 07:04:01 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
> On Friday, 22 July 2016 at 22:37:46 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> I know that DMD doesn't support it, but it has been a pain in the ass to not have cent/ucent for me.
>>
>> Adding support in LDC shouldn't be too difficult, as one can emit an i128 and let LLVM do the work. Would that be possible ?
>>
>> There is a bunch of virtual hugs to be won doing so, and if you are in the bay area, definitively a beer or something :)
>
> Out of curiosity, what sort of things do you do that would use cent/ucent?

bit sets up to 128 elements, on the stack and without the indirection that a BitArray would imply.

On Friday, 22 July 2016 at 22:37:46 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> I know that DMD doesn't support it, but it has been a pain in the ass to not have cent/ucent for me.
>
> Adding support in LDC shouldn't be too difficult, as one can emit an i128 and let LLVM do the work. Would that be possible ?
>
> There is a bunch of virtual hugs to be won doing so, and if you are in the bay area, definitively a beer or something :)

Hi deadalnix,

the PR against ltsmaster (ldc 0.17.x) is already usable:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1355

If you can life with the restrictions then I like to get some feedback on it.

I already created a PR for master

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1659

but this one requires much more work.

Regards,
Kai

On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 04:59:03 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi deadalnix,
>
> the PR against ltsmaster (ldc 0.17.x) is already usable:
>
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1355
>
> If you can life with the restrictions then I like to get some feedback on it.
>
> I already created a PR for master
>
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/1659
>
> but this one requires much more work.
>
> Regards,
> Kai

I'm sorry I missed your message. I'd be happy with that. If the codegen works, that's good enough for me.