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cmovq | 28 days ago

Last time I checked LLVM had surprisingly bad codegen for this using int128. On x86 you only need two instructions:

    __asm (
        "mulq %[multiplier]\n"
        "divq %[divisor]\n"
        : "=a"(result)
        : "a"(num), [multiplier]"r"(multiplier), [divisor]"r"(divisor)
        : "rdx"
    );
The intermediate 128bit number is in rdx:rax.

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bonzini|28 days ago

That only works if you are sure to have a 64-bit result. If you can have divisor < multiplier and need to detect overflow, it's more complicated.