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

[Robert Dewar]

On 4/8/2013 5:12 PM, Lawrence Crowl wrote:

(BTW, you *really* don't need to quote entire messages, I find
it rather redundant for the entire thread to be in every message,
we all have thread following mail readers!)

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Ada standard doesn't require any
> particular maximum evaluation precision, but only that you get an
> exception if the values exceed the chosen maximum.

Right, that's at run-time, at compile-time for static expressions,
infinite precision is required.

But at run-time, all three of the modes we provide are
standard conforming.

> In essence, you have moved some of the optimization from the back
> end to the front end.  Correct?

Sorry, I don't quite understand that. If you are syaing that the
back end could handle this widening for intermediate values, sure
it could, this is the kind of thing that can be done at various
different places.
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