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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.176.16.20 with SMTP id f20mr13364935uab.15.1493736498007; Tue, 02 May 2017 07:48:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.55.133 with SMTP id x5mr143249otb.10.1493736497917; Tue, 02 May 2017 07:48:17 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!t52no1092303qtb.0!news-out.google.com!x200ni39itb.0!nntp.google.com!c26no1702707itd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 07:48:17 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=31.50.5.91; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 31.50.5.91 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <45c389ad-5b2c-4f6a-9003-8a64d41d9ddc@googlegroups.com> Subject: Large Integer Overflow - Causing a Bottleneck - Any solution. From: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 14:48:17 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:46657 Date: 2017-05-02T07:48:17-07:00 List-Id: I am using a very old Ada compiler (gnat 311.p) in the Windows_7 operating system that has 64-bit architecture to write cryptography. Everything has gone well thus far but now I find I am being stymied from expanding my cipher by the upper bound placed by my Ada compiler on positive integers to 2^31 -1 or 2147483647 for positive integers. Is there any solution to this that won't want me to leave the main program in order to do it. Your usual help would be greatly appreciated. adacrypt