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From: djs@actnyc.UUCP (Dave Seward)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Need 64 bit integers on VAX
Message-ID: <691@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 00:09:00 GMT
References: <1234@wayback.UUCP> <31@obie.UUCP>
Reply-To: djs@actnyc.UUCP (Dave Seward)
Organization: InterACT Corporation
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In article <31@obie.UUCP> wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes:
>In article <1234@wayback.UUCP>, arny@wayback.UUCP (Arny B. Engelson) writes:
>> Is ... overloading the arithmetic
>> operators, the way to go?
>Yes, this is the way to go, that's why the features were put into the
>language.

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.

Dave Seward.
InterACT Corp.
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