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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/02/01
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Mats Weber says

<<I think it's a good thing that if you say "type T is range ...", then you will
>>

Note that no one ever guaranteed such a thing. It is certainly NOT true
for GNAT, which implements 64-bit integer arithmetic on all machines,
whether or not there is native 64-bit integer hardware.