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!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What about big integers in Ada 2005? Date: 04 Oct 2005 12:38:11 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <1581461.uQ1jN63t33@linux1.krischik.com> <5mo0f.529$B14.97@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com> <1x4pe4pv41qsn$.m5c5jawjqcpq.dlg@40tude.net> <1Jv0f.453$ht7.299@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1128443892 20929 192.74.137.71 (4 Oct 2005 16:38:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:38:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5379 Date: 2005-10-04T12:38:11-04:00 List-Id: writes: > We are in agreement on this. It can be done with a home-grown package, > but having implemented a partial version of it, I can say it is not a trivial > thing to do in Ada. True. The only really hard one is division -- it takes a couple hundred lines of arcane code. But you can copy the algorithms out of Knuth. Anyway, why not use the GNAT compiler's version? - Bob