From: gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde)
Subject: Re: OS Bindings (was: Where is the elusive jump command?)
Date: 2000/04/15
Date: 2000-04-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn8fgt9p.rsd.gisle@apal.ii.uib.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8d9pu3$2u0$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <8d9pu3$2u0$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar wrote:
>
>It is really surprising to many people that Ada compilers often
>do not support 64-bit arithmetic. In GNAT, we do guarantee
>64-bit integer arithmetic on all targets (Long_Long_Integer
>is at least 64-bits), but it does take extra work, and I
>suspect that a significant part of the reason that it is not
>done on all targets is that it is too much work to deal with
>loops, case statements, subscripts etc, and if you are allowed
>to simply avoid these issues by refusing to support it at all
>then that's the easier choice.
Which compilers (for PCs and workstations) supports 64-bit aritmetrics
and which ones do not.
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Gisle S�lensminde ( gisle@ii.uib.no )
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2000-03-21 0:00 Where is the elusive jump command? dis90072
2000-03-21 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-03-21 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-03-21 0:00 ` Nicolas Brunot
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-30 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-03-30 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-14 0:00 ` BASIC->Ada, was " tmoran
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-30 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-03-30 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-04 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-04-05 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-04-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-04-06 0:00 ` OS Bindings (was: Where is the elusive jump command?) Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
[not found] ` <eisner comp.lang.ada:53670>
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-08 0:00 ` nickerson
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-10 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde [this message]
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-18 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-15 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Where is the elusive jump command? Dale Stanbrough
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