From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,245c84afd1e393ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.rh-tec.net!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!carbon.eu.sun.com!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Dowie Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005? Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <1581461.uQ1jN63t33@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-152-56-192.range81-152.btcentralplus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com 1126813046 4176 81.152.56.192 (15 Sep 2005 19:37:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:37:26 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1581461.uQ1jN63t33@linux1.krischik.com> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4747 Date: 2005-09-15T19:37:26+00:00 List-Id: 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