From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005?
Date: 15 Sep 2005 16:08:26 -0500
Date: 2005-09-15T16:08:26-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <GFQs87NgB76W@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dgcihm$42g$2@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com
In article <dgcihm$42g$2@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>, Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> writes:
> Martin Krischik wrote:
>> You are mistaken here. i.E GNAT supports 64 integers for 32 bit CPUs. It's
>> all up to the particular compiler. In theory you could create an Ada
>> compiler which supports intergers up to the memory limit - it would still
>> conform to the standart.
>
> Yeah, but that's a bit of a pain, portability-wise. E.g. GNAT for
> Windows can support 64-bit integers but ObjectAda for Windows can't. :-(
But less of a problem that with other languages where the compiler might
have no obligation to reject programs which expect missing support (or no
syntax for the programs to specify expected support).
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2005-09-15 17:06 What about big integers in Ada 2005? jtg
2005-09-15 17:26 ` Pascal Obry
2005-09-15 17:30 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-15 17:26 ` Martin Krischik
2005-09-15 19:37 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-15 21:08 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2005-09-15 20:33 ` jtg
2005-09-15 21:10 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-09-18 0:46 ` adaworks
2005-09-30 17:41 ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-30 20:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-02 0:27 ` adaworks
[not found] ` <imsuj1h8vevg4un71rmh0nc41pnee5ihjl@4ax.com>
2005-10-02 10:33 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 16:20 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 5:24 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 7:22 ` tmoran
2005-10-04 8:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-04 11:57 ` Simon Clubley
2005-10-04 16:10 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 17:24 ` Simon Clubley
2005-10-04 19:44 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 13:46 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 16:38 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 16:52 ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-04 17:16 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 13:50 ` adaworks
2005-10-04 14:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-04 16:03 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 18:56 ` adaworks
2005-10-10 5:36 ` Dave Thompson
2005-10-14 0:31 ` adaworks
2005-10-06 14:21 ` Adrian Hoe
2005-10-07 6:48 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 0:48 ` Brian May
2005-10-02 10:28 ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 10:52 ` Brian May
2005-10-02 15:12 ` Simon Wright
2005-10-02 17:11 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-16 14:33 ` gautier_niouzes
2005-09-17 3:43 ` Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz>
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