> And we all know why u10000 is in there: because you have to have arbitrary-width integers when writing a compiler You don't need them as a built-in type to w

> And we all know why u10000 is in there: because you have to have arbitrary-width integers when writing a compiler You don't need them as a built-in type to write a compiler. They're there because LLVM was the original backend and you essentially get them for free (in the sense that the backend code generation is already handled for you, so why not include them).