> Frankly, before we go supporting modular types, I'd like to see > longer integers than 32 bit signed integers. That limitation is more > of a pain to work around than working with modular arithmetic using > the language as-is. Nothing in the language prevents from having integer types longer than 32 bits. That's a implementation issue; you should ask your vendor to support them. What you may want to is have the Std.Standard.Integer longer than 32 bits. I am not sure that this is a good idea. One of VHDL issue is that Integer is used at many places (and more places that needed). What is wrong with numeric_bit or numeric_std ? They provide all the needs of integer/modular types, but cannot be used easily to index arrays or as the type of iterator. Maybe we should concentrate on that point. Tristan. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Thu Oct 23 20:52:39 2014
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