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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: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>
Cc: Kenneth Zadeck <zadeck at naturalbridge dot com>, Lawrence Crowl <crowl at google dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, rdsandiford at googlemail dot com, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:45:55 -0400
Subject: Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
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On 4/8/2013 6:34 PM, Mike Stump wrote:

On Apr 8, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> wrote:

That may be so in C, in Ada it would be perfectly reasonable to use
infinite precision for intermediate results in some cases, since the
language standard specifically encourages this approach.


gcc lacks an infinite precision plus operator?!  :-)

Right, that's why we do everything in the front end in the
case of Ada. But it would be perfectly reasonable for the
back end to do this substitution.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Kenneth Zadeck

References:
- Re: patch to fix constant math - 4th patch - the wide-int class - patch ping for the next stage 1
  - From: Richard Biener
- Re: patch to fix constant math - 4th patch - the wide-int class - patch ping for the next stage 1
  - From: Kenneth Zadeck
- Re: patch to fix constant math - 4th patch - the wide-int class - patch ping for the next stage 1
  - From: Richard Biener
- Re: patch to fix constant math - 4th patch - the wide-int class - patch ping for the next stage 1
  - From: Kenneth Zadeck
- Re: patch to fix constant math - 4th patch - the wide-int class - patch ping for the next stage 1
  - From: Richard Biener
- Re: patch to fix constant math - 4th patch - the wide-int class - patch ping for the next stage 1
  - From: Kenneth Zadeck
- Re: patch to fix constant math - 4th patch - the wide-int class - patch ping for the next stage 1
  - From: Richard Biener
- Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Kenneth Zadeck
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Kenneth Zadeck
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Kenneth Zadeck
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Kenneth Zadeck
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Lawrence Crowl
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Robert Dewar
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Kenneth Zadeck
- Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
  - From: Mike Stump

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