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From: Andreas Almroth <andreas_NO_SPAM@almroth.com>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit for gcc-gnat-3.3.2
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Andreas Almroth wrote:
> I may be wrong here, but I don't think the Ada part of gcc supports 64
> bit. That is my experience when trying to compile with gcc.
> There are a few static settings which use 32 bit only.
> I imagine if one replace 32 with 64 in system.ads interesting things
> would start to happen... Only for the  bravest to try... ;-)
> 

I have had a bit of a look through the source code, and it seems to be 
support for 64 bit integers, but the RTS does not seem to take this into 
account, unless you change the Integer type to be 64 bit, or change to 
Long_Integer in cases where it is needed.