wide-int, ada

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 26/11/13 09:18, Eric Botcazou wrote:
>> you are correct - this was an incorrect change.   I believe that the
>> patch below would be correct, but it is impossible to test it because (i
>> believe) that gcc no longer works if the host_bits_per_wide_int is 32.
>> I could be wrong about this but if i am correct, what do you want me to do?
> 
> While you're right that most mainstream architectures now require a 64-bit 
> HWI, not all of them do according to config.gcc, so I don't think that this 
> path is entirely dead yet.  I'll carry out the testing once we agree on the 
> final change.

I'm hoping, once this patch series is in that we might be able to
migrate the ARM port back to supporting a 32-bit HWI.  The driving
factor behind the original switch was supporting 128-bit constants for
Neon and these patches should resolve that.

R.