{"id":13984,"date":"2020-04-24T05:50:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=77389611a56cd1b1c607377e77ffd819"},"modified":"2020-04-24T05:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T09:50:11","slug":"keen-to-go-_extint-llvm-clang-compiler-adds-support-for-custom-width-integers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=13984","title":{"rendered":"Keen to go _ExtInt? LLVM Clang compiler adds support for custom width integers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.co.uk\/feed\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2020\/04\/24\/llvm_project_adds_support_for\/\">The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Oooh, that's exciting.  Shitty support for specified precision is a _major_ problem in most languages and toolchains for everyone looking to do anything about power or performance right now.  I couldn't use LLVM for my MS work in part because at he time it scrubbed almost all the precision information in the IR.<\/div><h4>'Standard C integer types are incredibly wasteful' for certain types of programming<\/h4> <p>Erich Keane, a compiler frontend engineer at Intel, has committed a patch to the LLVM Clang project that enables custom width integers - such as 31 bit, 3 bit or 512 bit.&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Standard C integer types are incredibly wasteful&#8217; for certain types of programming Erich Keane, a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=13984\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}