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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005?
Date: 15 Sep 2005 16:08:26 -0500
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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).