Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005?

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

jtg wrote:

> When I started to learn Ada, one of the most interesting features for me
> was the possibility to declare integer type of the specified range.
> I imagined that the integer type may be of any size.
> However, several years later I needed big integers and I was
> disappointed - Ada95 does not support integers of ANY size,
> it can support only those integers that are supported
> by the processor, or smaller.

You are mistaken here. i.E GNAT supports 64 integers for 32 bit CPUs. It's
all up to the particular compiler. In theory you could create an Ada
compiler which supports intergers up to the memory limit - it would still
conform to the standart.

Martin

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