🚀 go-pugleaf

colin@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Colin Plumb) writes:

: In article <3bsOwQ9ytdOV084yn@csn.net>, Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> wrote:
::  Granted, built in is easier to use than library calls.  I questioning
::  how often we need 128-bit int arithmetic.

: I was coming up with a list of reasons why mandating more than 64 bits
: for now is unnecessary when I thought of a very important 128-bit
: application: IPv6 addresses.

I know a very important 4096-bit application: boot sectors.

(But I don't use arithmetic on them, but instead treat them as
  typedef struct { char a[512]; } bootsector;
Do you use arithmetic on IPv6 addresses?)

There is no need to have integral types that are required to have
more than 64 bits.