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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 07:51:31 +0200
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Le mercredi 02 avril 2014 =C3=A0 17:01 -0700, Jeffrey Carter a =C3=A9crit :=
=20
> On 04/02/2014 03:53 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> > Even on 8-bit and 16-bit processors??
>=20
> I'd like the language to support any integer type declaration a user is w=
illing=20
> to write, regardless of "efficiency". For some such declarations, the com=
piler=20
> can chain together multiple machine "words" as we used to do in the Good =
Old=20
> Days=C2=AE to get 16-bit integers on 8-bit machines like the 6502. At som=
e the point=20
> the compiler should be allowed to use the same representation as=20
> Unbounded_Integer, which would implement the unlimited-precision integer =
package=20
> the compiler writer has had to use to write the compiler (or a similar pa=
ckage=20
> for the target for cross compilers).

But again this is doable today in Ada (even 1983) with a library and
proper overriding of the operators.

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