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From: wbdavis@shooter.nswc.navy.mil (Bill Davis)
Subject: Transition from 32 to 64 bit
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 16:07:16 GMT
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I have a large program written in Ada which currently runs on a 32 bit MIPS machine.  I have been requested to move this software to a 64 bit SGI machine.  We are running Verdix compilers on both machines.  I am having trouble because on the MIPS the float type is 32 bits and the long_float is 64 bits.  On the SGI machine the float is 64 bits and the short_float is 32 bits.  Is there any way to get this software running without actually changing all the floats to short_floats and the long_floats to floats 
in the source code.  If anyone has any suggestions, I would like to hear them.  Thanks.

Bill Davis