Re: 64-bit unsigned integer?

[Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> One of the main reason for the change to libraries is that we have a number 
> of requests to add additional numeric functionality (unlimited-size integers 
> ["bignum"], saturation math) 

I'd imagine that in the Ada world, machine integers should have a more
primitive status than that of bignums.  That's because bignum arithmetic
can allocate hard-to-predict amounts of memory and take unknown runtime,
in tension with Ada's emphasis on resource control and realtime
predictability.