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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Text_IO for other standard types
Date: 1998/01/17
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Geert says

<<When I would need to program "bignums", I would just write a nice
package spec and then use the Uintp package in the body.  I would
rate this GNAT package as top-secret and re-using it is ethically
questional and borders on the obscene when you are supposed to be
a programmer. :-) ;-) :-)
>>

Actually uintp is not that efficient, and is not architecture tuned. 
It is very hard to write efficient multiple precision arithmetic
in Ada or most other high level languages, because of not having access
to double length operations and the carry flag.

However, it certainly would be handy to have a version of Uintp suitable
for use by general applicatoin programs (one for the to-do list :-)