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One thing that might be useful to me if you have the time, is an assembler dump of the sources. Can gcc do that? 

gcc -S a.c

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And if it can, would it show the actual operations involved, or just calls to system library routines?

It provides the assembler code for the code you are compiling, which would include inlined functions, but I don't see why it would disassemble existing objects. 

$ cat a.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
   printf("Hello, World!\n");
   return 0;
}

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$ cat a.s
        .file   "a.c"
        .section        .rodata
.LC0:
        .string "Hello, World!"
        .text
.globl main
        .type   main, @function
main:
        leal    4(%esp), %ecx
        andl    $-16, %esp
        pushl   -4(%ecx)
        pushl   %ebp
        movl    %esp, %ebp
        pushl   %ecx
        subl    $4, %esp
        movl    $.LC0, (%esp)
        call    puts
        movl    $0, %eax
        addl    $4, %esp
        popl    %ecx
        popl    %ebp
        leal    -4(%ecx), %esp
        ret
        .size   main, .-main
        .ident  "GCC: (Debian 4.3.2-1.1) 4.3.2"
        .section        .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits

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Are they inlined?

I can't try to install the dev gcc needed for Math::Int128 at this moment.

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Re^8: Module for 128-bit integer math?
by salva (Canon) on Feb 09, 2011 at 09:55 UTC
    C code:
    Read more... (538 Bytes)
    Assembler generated by gcc -O3 -march=core2:
    Read more... (2 kB)
    So, it uses inlined 64bits arithmetic, except for division and modulo operations that are library calls.
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      Cool! Many thanks for that. I may just translate those sequences to MASM and use them directly until I work if using SSE* will improve performance.

      Shame about the div/mod cos those are the ones I've had trouble getting right. But I should be able to look them up in the gcc library sources?

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Re^8: Module for 128-bit integer math?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 09, 2011 at 04:04 UTC
    but I don't see why it would disassemble existing objects.

    It obviously wouldn't disassemble anything.

    But if the 128-bit math functions were marked inline, their implementation would show up.

    If not inlined, then the names of the routines called to perform it should be visible, and that would aid tracking down their implementation in the library sources.

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      It obviously wouldn't disassemble anything.

      Then it will obviously just show the calls to system library routines.

      then the names of the routines called to perform it should be visible

      Confirmed by the demonstration I posted.

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        Then it will obviously just show the calls to system library routines.

        Unless they are inlined. Full circle.

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