Re: Ada suitablity as a game dev language

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

Sandro Magi wrote:

> You can't specify arbitrary integer sizes greater than the underlying
> machine word size though can you? ie. 1024 bit integers are not
> natively supported. x86 would be limited to 32 bits for instance (64
> bits with gnat).

You're limited to what the compiler writer is willing to support. That's 
how GNAT supports 64-bit integers on 32-bit machines. You could expand 
the idea to support 96-, 128-, or whatever-bit integers on any platform. 
There's no intrinsic reason why 1024-bit integers could not be supported 
on an 8-bit platform.

If you were interested, you could modify GNAT to support larger integers 
and report on it here. I'm sure we'd all be interested in hearing what 
was involved. Perhaps your efforts could be incorporated into the 
supported compiler.

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