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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Wraparound on multiply overflow
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:25:02 +0200
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Paul Graham <pgraham@cadence.com> writes:

> In C it is defined that the result of multiplying two unsigned integers
> is the mathematical result modulo the value (int_max + 1), where int_max
> is the maximum unsigned integer.

This is only true for unsigned types.

> Can this code be written in Ada?

Use a modular type.  They correspond to unsigned types in C.