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From: naasking@gmail.com (Sandro Magi)
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Subject: Re: Ada suitablity as a game dev language
Date: 24 Nov 2004 09:59:40 -0800
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Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com> wrote in message news:<4770972.9DtAtPAQWM@linux1.krischik.com>...
> Jeff Houck wrote:
>  * the ability to defined you own float types (speed vs. precision).
>  * abritatry sized integer (12 bit integer - no prob).

You can't specify arbitrary integer sizes greater than the underlying
machine word size though can you? ie. 1024 bit integers are not
natively supported. x86 would be limited to 32 bits for instance (64
bits with gnat).