Richard Sandiford <rdsandif...@googlemail.com> writes: > As is probably obvious, I don't agree FWIW. It seems like an unnecessary > complication without any clear use. Especially since the number of > significant HWIs in a wide_int isn't always going to be the same for > both operands to a binary operation, and it's not clear to me whether > that should be handled in the base class or wide_int.
...and the number of HWIs in the result might be different again. Whether that's true depends on the value as well as the (HWI) size of the operands. Richard