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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:37:26 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2005-09-15T19:37:26+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dgcihm$42g$2@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1581461.uQ1jN63t33@linux1.krischik.com>

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. :-(

Cheers

-- Martin



  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-15 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-15 17:06 What about big integers in Ada 2005? jtg
2005-09-15 17:26 ` Pascal Obry
2005-09-15 17:30   ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-15 17:26 ` Martin Krischik
2005-09-15 19:37   ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2005-09-15 21:08     ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-09-15 20:33   ` jtg
2005-09-15 21:10     ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-09-18  0:46   ` adaworks
2005-09-30 17:41     ` Robert A Duff
2005-09-30 20:18       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-02  0:27       ` adaworks
     [not found]         ` <imsuj1h8vevg4un71rmh0nc41pnee5ihjl@4ax.com>
2005-10-02 10:33           ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 16:20             ` adaworks
2005-10-04  5:24           ` adaworks
2005-10-04  7:22             ` tmoran
2005-10-04  8:25             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-04 11:57               ` Simon Clubley
2005-10-04 16:10                 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 17:24                   ` Simon Clubley
2005-10-04 19:44                     ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 13:46               ` adaworks
2005-10-04 16:38                 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 16:52                   ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-04 17:16                     ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 13:50               ` adaworks
2005-10-04 14:59                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-04 16:03                 ` Robert A Duff
2005-10-04 18:56                   ` adaworks
2005-10-10  5:36                     ` Dave Thompson
2005-10-14  0:31                       ` adaworks
2005-10-06 14:21             ` Adrian Hoe
2005-10-07  6:48               ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02  0:48   ` Brian May
2005-10-02 10:28     ` Martin Krischik
2005-10-02 10:52       ` Brian May
2005-10-02 15:12       ` Simon Wright
2005-10-02 17:11         ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-16 14:33 ` gautier_niouzes
2005-09-17  3:43   ` Craig Carey <research@ijs.co.nz>
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