Jim, Exactly my point. In order for long integers to be portable, they would need to be defined by the standard and then adopted by a significant portion of the vendors. Without a defining standard, support for long integers is not going to happen. On 10/29/2014 2:51 PM, Jim Lewis wrote: > Ray, > Oops. I was not clear. I was referring to "very few > engineers/companies asked for VHDL2008 and hence the uptake was rather > slow". > > I agree, 64 bit integers is not a bug. Asking for them is not > non-compliant with the LRM, however larger than 32 bit would > potentially be non-portable. OTOH, > -- --Ray Andraka, P.E. President, the Andraka Consulting Group, Inc. 401/884-7930 Fax 401/884-7950 email ray@andraka.com http://www.andraka.com "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Wed Oct 29 12:53:48 2014
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