Re: Ada.Numerics.Big_Numbers.Big_Integer has a limit of 300 digits?

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 2021-12-22 18:04, AdaMagica wrote:
>> Bignum_Limit : constant := 200;
> RM 2.2(14) limiits the line length and the length of lexical elements to 200.


To express it more clearly, RM 2.2(14) requires implementations to 
support lines and lexical elements of /at least/ 200 characters, but 
/allows/ implementations to support longer lines and lexical elements.

I'm not sure if GNAT supports more than 200 characters, though. And of 
course an Ada program that uses more than 200 characters may not be 
portable to compilers that support only 200.

But I don't see any direct logical connection to the number of digits 
that Big_Integers can support. While one cannot write a big-number 
literal longer than a line or longer than the maximum length of a 
lexical element, that should not directly limit the size of big-number 
values in computations.