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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com,
	Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] system_data_types.7: Add '__int128'
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:47:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eemg97ew.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001163443.106933-2-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> (Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha's message of "Thu, 1 Oct 2020 18:34:41 +0200")

* Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha:

> +the compiler is able to generate efficient code for 128-bit arithmetic".

Stray "?

> +.PP
> +See also the
> +.IR intmax_t ,
> +.IR int N _t

I think it's surprising that intmax_t can be smaller than __int128 (and
usually is, I think), so that's probably worth mentioning.  Assuming
that we want to document __int128 at all as part of the man-pages
project.

Thanks,
Florian
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-02 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01 16:34 [PATCH 0/4] Document 128-bit types Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] system_data_types.7: Add '__int128' Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 11:47   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2020-10-02 17:52     ` Paul Eggert
2020-10-02 19:01       ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 19:54         ` Paul Eggert
2020-10-02 20:03           ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 20:19             ` Paul Eggert
2020-10-02 23:44               ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 23:53                 ` Paul Eggert
2020-10-05  7:12           ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-07  6:53             ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-07  6:57               ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 2/4] __int128.3: New link to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] system_data_types.7: Add 'unsigned __int128' Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 4/4] unsigned-__int128.3: New link to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Document 128-bit types Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] system_data_types.7: Add '__int128' Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] __int128.3: New link to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] system_data_types.7: Add 'unsigned __int128' Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 12:28 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] unsigned-__int128.3: New link to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar

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