From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/02/07
Date: 1998-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: dewar.886366928@merv
But Robert, this doesn't answer the question of what the compiler does by
default.
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Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote in article
<dewar.886366928@merv>...
> Nick said
>
> <<On the other hand, one might argue that decimal types should be
implemented
> in the same way as fixed types, on the grounds that this implementation
> will have been chosen for maximum performance (rather than flexibility,
or
> the requirements of the Information Systems special annex).
> >>
>
> One would think the most reasonable approach is to let this depend
> on Machine_Radix, that is why it is there!
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-27 0:00 Bignum modular types in Ada95 Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Dmitriy Anisimkov
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <EnIIvn.3zr@world.std.com>
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Mats Weber
[not found] ` <EnKEtu.KGp@world.std.com>
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-07 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1998-02-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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