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From: Qun-Ying <zhu.qunying@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:19:42 -0700
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Robert A Duff wrote:
> But I agree with you that Ada ought to require[*] 64-bit integers
> (and more, as Jeff Carter said).  On the other hand, I have
> no use for Standard.Long_Long_Integer -- I just want to be
> able to say things like "range 1..2**123".
> - Bob
>
What prevents a compiler to implement that in the current standard?
Couldn't the compiler use internal representation (like using the gmp 
lib) for such big range?