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Re: Comments on the suggestion to use infinite precision math for wide int.


On 04/09/2013 01:47 AM, Robert Dewar wrote:
Well the back end has all the information to figure this out I think!
But anyway, for Ada, the current situation is just fine, and has
the advantage that the -gnatG expanded code listing clearly shows in
Ada source form, what is going on.

Isn't this a bit optimistic, considering that run-time overflow checking currently does not use existing hardware support?

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team


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