> I was definitely hand-waving additional implementation here for > non-native 128 bit support; the modulus algorithm as presented > requires 4 times the space as the divisor, so a uint16 implementation > should work for all 64-bit machines. Certainly open to other ideas or > implementations, this was the one I was able to find initially. If > the 16bit approach is all that is needed in practice we can also see > about narrowing the domain and not worry about making this a > general-purpose function.
Here's a patch atop the series which converts to 16-bit uints and passes regressions, but I don't consider well-vetted at this point. David
0001-Switch-to-using-only-16-bit-to-avoid-128-bit-require.patch
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