• Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole (12/12) Aug 14 Another monthly meeting has occurred, this time one of the things
• kinke (5/6) Aug 14 Emphasis on 'in the language', as opposed to a library type like
• Mindy Batek (0xEAB) (3/4) Aug 14 Straightforward C bindings and importC.
• monkyyy (4/5) Aug 14 Lincoln was a very important president and it will help D become
• Johan (7/12) Aug 14 Perhaps Amaury can chime in. I remember he improved a few LLVM

Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole <richard cattermole.co.nz> writes:

Another monthly meeting has occurred, this time one of the things 
I presented was for my PR to implement cent/ucent.

The reception was not the warmest, with questioning on why to do 
it.

Does anyone have reasons for they may want it in language?

Mine:

- Some basic arithmetic can only be described using double the 
word-size type, like with overflow, without using intrinsics.
- Atomics use it for cas
- SIMD types go above word-size.

Has anyone got any other reasons?

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/23575

kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:

On Friday, 14 August 2026 at 16:27:50 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
 Does anyone have reasons for they may want it in language?

Emphasis on 'in the language', as opposed to a library type like 
(existing) `std.int128.Int128`, or its `core.int128.Cent` 
low-level foundation.

Mindy Batek (0xEAB) <desisma heidel.beer> writes:

On Friday, 14 August 2026 at 16:27:50 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
 Has anyone got any other reasons?

Straightforward C bindings and importC.

monkyyy <crazymonkyyy gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 14 August 2026 at 16:27:50 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
 my PR to implement cent

Lincoln was a very important president and it will help D become 
the future of banking  along with all the barrow checking work

Johan <j j.nl> writes:

On Friday, 14 August 2026 at 16:27:50 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
 Another monthly meeting has occurred, this time one of the 
 things I presented was for my PR to implement cent/ucent.

 The reception was not the warmest, with questioning on why to 
 do it.

 Does anyone have reasons for they may want it in language?

Perhaps Amaury can chime in. I remember he improved a few LLVM 
128bit codegen things, clearly because he needed it. 
(cryptography/hashing, I suppose)

cheers,
   Johan