On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:09 +0200, Duncan Sands wrote: > I mean that no use is made of special hardware support. This is in > analogy to "floating point emulation", for processors with no fp support.
IIRC, hardware integer overflow support access from the code generator would be useful too for Ada (currently checks are expensive so enabled only by the -gnato flag and done by the front end). Laurent