From: wes@wsccs.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: Need 64 bit integers on VAX
Date: 19 Feb 88 21:06:29 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <169@wsccs.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 691@actnyc.UUCP
In article <691@actnyc.UUCP>, djs@actnyc.UUCP (Dave Seward) writes:
> I agree with Mr. Wes, but add that VMS has RTL (run time library) callable
> routines giving access to the VAX 64 bit arithmetic instructions, so that
> one could write an Ada package providing this ability without having to
> actually code the arithmetic operations themselves.
Good tip, Dave; if I had known about the VAX 64-bit integer routines in the
RTL, I would have suggested the same thing. My first Ada program had import
pragmas so I could use QIO's for direct terminal I/O. It was really very
easy to do, I used the sources for the Ada RTL routine (which are written
in BLISS, of course :-) ) import pragmas as an example.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1988-01-28 15:13 Need 64 bit integers on VAX Arny B. Engelson
1988-02-04 7:05 ` Barnacle Wes
1988-02-11 0:09 ` Dave Seward
1988-02-19 21:06 ` Barnacle Wes [this message]
1988-02-27 6:01 ` terry
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