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Re: Target FUNCTION_{PRO,EPI}LOGUE question

To: guerby at acm dot org
Subject: Re: Target FUNCTION_{PRO,EPI}LOGUE question
From: Florian Weimer <Florian dot Weimer at RUS dot Uni-Stuttgart dot DE>
Date: 29 Jun 2001 15:19:42 +0200
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106282016400.22638-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk><200106282031.WAA01464@ulmo>

Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org> writes:

> Multiple precision for GNU Ada is handled in the front-end (source
> uintp.ad[sb]) and not exported in the runtime library (there are
> multiple Ada GMP libraries floating around anyway).

Actually, there are some obscure cases in which universal integers
exist during run time, and they can even be larger than a machine word
(but unsual architectures, you only need three additional bits, so GNU
MP is certainly overkill).

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