Re: Re: [RFC-Discuss] Scalar Type Declarations v0.5

On 18/02/15 23:09, Christoph Becker wrote: > It seems to me that this behavior is hard to deal with generally for > programmers as well as static analyzers. Andreas' bigint RFC[1] would > solve that issue, but it has been withdrawn, and AFAIK nobody is working > on it. OTOH, bigint would make the widening from int to float > potentially even more lossy (i.e. inaccurate) than it is now (64bit ints > vs. IEEE 754 doubles). The 'unconstrained integer' RFC adds it' own problems, but the int -> float overflow is only a problem with 32bit builds anyway. 64bit builds will not overflow until they run out of space anyway. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk