On Tuesday, 13 January 2026 13:53:58 Pacific Standard Time Hans Åberg wrote:
> > In fact, the answer you gave has absolutely nothing to do with Marcin's
> > statement. Marcin said that if the compiler implements support for 256-bit
> > integers, then it won't need to expand and instantiate templates, which in
> > -O0 mode means there are no non-inlined inline functions.
>
> But that is the very point: the templates recurse down half-words until
> there is an implementation. So in your example, it will just call the
> 256-bit specialized function that is implemented.

And again you're missing the point: why can the template do this but the
compiler-provided implementation can't?

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