add usize/isize to generated trait impls#97
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add usize/isize to generated trait impls#97cosmicexplorer wants to merge 1 commit intodalek-cryptography:mainfrom
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Thanks @cosmicexplorer! This looks fine, but generally in cryptographic code we don't really see usage of integer types of platform-defined sizes, so I am curious what the use-case is for this?
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See also previous rationale on #83 |
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I've encountered a use case for this: when you are using In my particular case, it involves computing a value on an entry at a given index, and then selecting whether to store or discard the result based on whether or not the index matches a specified value. Here's a real-world example: https://github.com/RustCrypto/crypto-bigint/blob/4aee8ce1e185f9c1156a162ecce6164bf80ab915/src/uint/boxed/bits.rs#L40 |
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It seems like
usizeandisizecould reasonably be allowed to implementConstantTime{Greater,Less}via the macros that are already used for other integer types. I assumed it was an oversight that this wasn't already done.