On Feb 23, 2013 4:41 PM, "Daniel Murphy" <yebblies@nospamgmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw@ubuntu.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1485.1361633569.22503.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com...
> >
> > No reason not to allow all typical numeric operations.  Of course you'll
> > need explicit casts to do 'long = cent' operations, and 'cent = long+long'
> > should not require a cast.
> >
> > Overall, there's nothing that looks too special about the type, and
> > support
> > for it appears to work just fine when testing simple working cases on
> > 32bit.
> >
>
> The problem is in adding complete support to the frontend, you need 128-bit
> integer literals, constant folding, ctfe and range propagation.  There's
> probably more work involved in adding it to the dmd frontend than the dmd
> backend.
>

I don't use any part of the dmd backend. :o)

Constant folding and ctfe wouldn't be high priorities for this type.  Support in frontend would be more equal to, say how vectors are handled.

Regards
--
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';