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Re: Standards compliant preprocessor arithmetic


Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:

> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:58:48PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
>> Why is "long" not enough for a 32->64 bit cross?
>
> We need 67-bit integers for bit offsets for Ada, which
> means we use TImode.

Really?  Older GNAT compilers only support a maximum object size of
256 MB, AFAIK.


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