Re: Real Time IO routines

[andrew <andrew.carroll@okstate.edu>]

On Oct 26, 1:36 pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> andrew writes:
> > Time_Unit is defined as a constant := 10#1.0#E-9, is Time_Unit then
> > a "real literal"?  How can I convert a "real literal" to a scalar
> > type (maybe that's a contradiction?)?
>
> Real literals are of the type universal_real which (a) is scalar and
> (b) converts implicitly to any other floating-point type.  Does that
> answer your question?
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

To Ludovic:  Ahh, so if I had to define a universal_real I could
output it using something like integer'image(it)?

To AV:  I don't really know why it's necessary yet; sometimes my
subconcious mind works faster than my concious mind and I just have to
go with it.  I can say though that:

   --  Time and Time_Span are represented in 64-bit Duration value in
   --  in nanoseconds. For example, 1 second and 1 nanosecond is
   --  represented as the stored integer 1_000_000_001.

So if a duration is represented as the stored INTEGER ... then I could
maybe use integer'image(duration), maybe?

what does this mean:  type DURATION is delta implementation_defined
range implementation_defined;?
Is delta?  what's delta?