Part of the _BitInt feature in C2x
(http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2763.pdf) is a new
macro in limits.h named BITINT_MAXWIDTH that can be used to determine
the maximum width of a bit-precise integer type. This macro must expand
to a value that is at least as large as ULLONG_WIDTH.
This adds an implementation-defined macro named __BITINT_MAXWIDTH__ to
specify that value, which is used by limits.h for the standard macro.
This also limits the maximum bit width to 128 bits because backends do
not currently support all mathematical operations (such as division) on
wider types yet. This maximum is expected to be increased in the future.
This completes the implementation of
WG14 N2412 (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2412.pdf),
which standardizes C on a twos complement representation for integer
types. The only work that remained there was to define the correct
macros in the standard headers, which this patch does.
Aaron Ballman