Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!clyde!wayback!arny
From: arny@wayback.UUCP (Arny B. Engelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Need 64 bit integers on VAX
Message-ID: <1234@wayback.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 15:13:48 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ
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We are using VAX Ada and need to store 64 bit integer numbers.  Since an
Integer is 32 bits, we have a problem.  For reasons I won't go into,
Floating and Fixed point representations are out.

Is using something like Unsigned_Quadword, and overloading the arithmetic
operators, the way to go?  Has someone already coded these routines?

Any solution has to allow normal arithmetic operations and I/O capabilities.
It has to look and feel, to the user, like an integer.

What solutions have people come up with to this type of problem?

Arny Engelson
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