On Oct 31, 2012, at 6:54 AM, Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > I propose that no wide-int member function > may _change_ it's len (to something larger).
We never do that, so, we already do as you wish. We construct wide ints, and we have member functions to construct values. We need to construct values as some parts of the compiler want to create values. The construction of values can be removed when the rest of the compiler no longer wishes to construct values. LTO is an example of a client that wanted to construct a value. I'll let the LTO people chime in if they wish to no loner construct values.
