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    Add, optional, support for 128bit integers. · 8122e143
    Andres Freund authored
    We will, for the foreseeable future, not expose 128 bit datatypes to
    SQL. But being able to use 128bit math will allow us, in a later patch,
    to use 128bit accumulators for some aggregates; leading to noticeable
    speedups over using numeric.
    
    So far we only detect a gcc/clang extension that supports 128bit math,
    but no 128bit literals, and no *printf support. We might want to expand
    this in the future to further compilers; if there are any that that
    provide similar support.
    
    Discussion: 544BB5F1.50709@proxel.se
    Author: Andreas Karlsson, with significant editorializing by me
    Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Oskari Saarenmaa
    8122e143
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