[m-rev.] for review: add builtin 8, 16 and 32 bit integer types -- Part 1

[Julien Fischer]

Hi Michael,

On Saturday, 1 July 2017, Michael Day <mikeday at yeslogic.com> wrote:

> Hi Julien,
>
> - Extends the compiler to recognise 'int8', 'uint8', 'int16', 'uint16',
>> 'int32'
>>    and 'uint32' as builtin types.
>>
>
> Handy!
>
> Will there be syntax for integer literals of these types?


Yes, in fact it already exists in the term parser - it's just not
documented at the moment.  (Fixed size integers must have a suffix that
gives there signedness and size, for example 8u16, 0x13ed_i32 etc.)

Julien.
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