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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/02/01
Date: 1998-02-01T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.886367650@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34D1CC6C.A62922A8@elca-matrix.ch


Mats said

  <<I think it's a good thing that if you say "type T is range ...", then
  you will get the machine's built-in arithmetic.>>

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.





  reply	other threads:[~1998-02-01  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-01-27  0:00 Bignum modular types in Ada95 Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28  0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-29  0:00     ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-30  0:00       ` Brian Rogoff
     [not found]   ` <EnIIvn.3zr@world.std.com>
1998-01-29  0:00     ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-31  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-29  0:00     ` Mats Weber
     [not found]       ` <EnKEtu.KGp@world.std.com>
1998-01-30  0:00         ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-30  0:00           ` Mats Weber
1998-01-30  0:00             ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-31  0:00               ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-30  0:00         ` Mats Weber
1998-02-01  0:00           ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-02-01  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-31  0:00         ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-01  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-01  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02  0:00     ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-02-02  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-03  0:00         ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-02-04  0:00           ` Keith Thompson
1998-01-28  0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-28  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-01-28  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-07  0:00       ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-09  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-28  0:00 ` Dmitriy Anisimkov
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