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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4751d44ff54a2c2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-30 11:30:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-west.nntpserver.com!hub1.meganetnews.com!nntpserver.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 64-bit integers in Ada Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:35:21 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3D46DC69.7C291297@adaworks.com> References: <3CE3978F.6070704@gmx.spam.egg.sausage.and.spam.net> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.bb.69.d2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 30 Jul 2002 18:30:52 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27488 Date: 2002-07-30T18:30:52+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > Note that the RM does not require support for 64-bit integers > (unfortunately, IMHO), and there are compilers that do not support > 64-bit integers. Robert, We still have quite a few embedded platforms for which 64 bit integers are not supported. We would like to be able to use Ada 95 for them, so a requirement for a language feature that is not supported would be meaningless. Also, there has been some discussion, in the past, about support for eight-bit microcontrollers such as the I-8051 family. I am sure some compiler developer would find it very entertaining to design an Ada compiler with 8051 64 bit integers, but also quite useless. Richard Riehle