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Re: bit_size_type - a data type?

From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, richard dot guenther at gmail dot com, shafitvm at gmail dot com
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 20:24:22 +0200
Subject: Re: bit_size_type - a data type?
References: <ba0bd44d0805120258r3df0233ck4998aa1b91d1fbbd@mail.gmail.com> <84fc9c000805120311y2d474049od36ff068ef66d268@mail.gmail.com> <10805121126.AA09176@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <87y76e7g3y.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <10805131210.AA19728@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>

* Richard Kenner:

>> Ada used a 32-bit signed integer type in this case, limiting object size
>> to 2**31 bits.  Is this no longer the case?
>
> It was never the case.  You're confusing sizetype with bitsizetype.

The limit was definitely there.  Maybe it had a different root cause,
though.

References:
- bit_size_type - a data type?
  - From: Mohamed Shafi
- Re: bit_size_type - a data type?
  - From: Richard Guenther
- Re: bit_size_type - a data type?
  - From: Richard Kenner
- Re: bit_size_type - a data type?
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: bit_size_type - a data type?
  - From: Richard Kenner

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