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From: gisle@apal.ii.uib.no (Gisle S�lensminde)
Subject: Re: OS Bindings (was: Where is the elusive jump command?)
Date: 2000/04/15
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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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