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Commit 8cba7217 authored by Aaron Ballman's avatar Aaron Ballman
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Implement literal suffixes for _BitInt

WG14 adopted N2775 (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2775.pdf)
at our Feb 2022 meeting. This paper adds a literal suffix for
bit-precise types that automatically sizes the bit-precise type to be
the smallest possible legal _BitInt type that can represent the literal
value. The suffix chosen is wb (for a signed bit-precise type) which
can be combined with the u suffix (for an unsigned bit-precise type).

The preprocessor continues to operate as-if all integer types were
intmax_t/uintmax_t, including bit-precise integer types. It is a
constraint violation if the bit-precise literal is too large to fit
within that type in the context of the preprocessor (when still using
a pp-number preprocessing token), but it is not a constraint violation
in other circumstances. This allows you to make bit-precise integer
literals that are wider than what the preprocessor currently supports
in order to initialize variables, etc.
parent dc152659
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