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Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
- From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- To: Kenneth Zadeck <zadeck at naturalbridge dot com>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Lawrence Crowl <crowl at google dot com>, rdsandiford at googlemail dot com, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:19:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
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On 4/8/2013 9:15 AM, Kenneth Zadeck wrote:
I think this applies to Ada constant arithmetic as well.
Ada constant arithmetic (at compile time) is always infinite
precision (for float as well as for integer).