From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, RATWARE_MS_HASH,RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c83229a21d53b2b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "bob" Subject: Re: Long Float Error from Gnat Date: 1998/11/01 Message-ID: <01be05c1$e651cc60$0e2915c0@w95>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 407295799 References: <3638F49C.E90A401E@easystreet.com> <363A49F3.DB0A0196@easystreet.com> <71fob8$r2e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <363B6EBF.C67DA0DC@easystreet.com> <71hul6$bjf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <363C8EAA.57DBA71C@easystreet.com> Organization: B & D Associates X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Nov 01 12:02:00 PM CST 1998 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-01T12:02:00-06:00 List-Id: 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 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 >