From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9a441a9594e85d08 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fb57f,9a441a9594e85d08 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb57f,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95 Date: 1998/02/07 Message-ID: <01bd3358$d224af00$LocalHost@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 322788670 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34CE568C.55D7E23D@cl.cam.ac.uk> <01bd2b92$b639c1e0$64fc82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> <01bd2b95$9bf9c200$64fc82c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: UUNet UK server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet UK) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,sci.crypt Date: 1998-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: But Robert, this doesn't answer the question of what the compiler does by default. -- == Nick Roberts ================================================ == Croydon, UK =========================== == ================ == Proprietor, ThoughtWing Software ========== == Independent Software Development Consultant ====== == Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com ==== == Voicemail & Fax +44 181-405 1124 === == == == I live not in myself, but I become == === Portion of that around me; and to me == ==== High mountains are a feeling, but the hum == ======= Of human cities torture. =========== -- Byron [Childe Harold] Robert Dewar wrote in article ... > Nick said > > < 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!