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Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
- From: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
- 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>, Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>, 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, 8 Apr 2013 15:34:32 -0700
- Subject: Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.
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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?! :-)