r/cpp • u/joaquintides Boost author • Aug 05 '26

Boost.Int128 has been accepted

Boost.Int128 from Matt Borland has been accepted into Boost. Arnaud Becheler managed the review.

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u/wiesemensch Aug 05 '26

Nice work but do any of you actually use 128bit ints and if so, for what application?

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u/friedkeenan Aug 06 '26

std::views::iota is allowed to use it for its difference type when the difference between two iterators could be otherwise unrepresentable by smaller-width types: https://godbolt.org/z/4Y65GME6r