Re: Long Float Error from Gnat

["bob" <bklungle@junque.com>]

Don't despair Al,

I for one thank you for informing me/us of this.

As one of those paying $750.00 per month, I welcome anything which helps my
company and I out.

TKS...bob

Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com> wrote in article
<363C8EAA.57DBA71C@easystreet.com>...
> dewarr@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> > 
> > GNAT chat is also not the place to post bug reports. We never take bug
reports
> > from either CLA or from chat, only from explicit mail to
report@gnat.com.
> 
> Sure.  I didn't expect that I was going to report a bug via GNAT chat.
> When I wrote my posting here, I had not concluded that I had even found
> a bug.  I was only posting something curious and Ada-related that I
> did not understand.  This newsgroup seemed to me the most likely place
> for me to learn more about what I was seeing.  That worked.  
> 
> I have not written a bug report on this item -- one of the first 
> responses I got was "wait until 3.11 comes out, then submit a bug
> report". Another was "it's fixed". Given that reply, I don't I will
> submit a bug report.
> 
> Even not given that reply, I don't know if I would have submitted 
> a bug report.  As I remember reading it, probably second hand, so 
> correct me if I'm wrong, ACT's customers pay not less than $600/month
> to be ACT's customers, and I pay nothing.  I expect that at least some 
> of them read this newsgroup and would see my posting.  They obviously 
> have some far more significant interest than me in having GNAT programs 
> produce correct results.  If they can live with a system with this flaw 
> that only shows up for numbers of magnitude around 1E-30 and less, and 
> if none of those customers with their CMM software processes have found 
> this problem that I unearthed within about 1 month of starting to use 
> GNAT day-to-day for real work in my 1-person operation, and if none of 
> them would ask ACT to fix it, who am I to complain?
> 
> 
> Al
>