VALUE and IMAGE operations for FLOAT

VALUE and IMAGE operations for FLOAT

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	I am interested in finding a software reuseable package that
performs the equivalent VALUE and IMAGE operations but for the FLOAT
type. I saw that Grady Booch has a package in his "Software Components
with Ada" that supports this in the package Floating_Point_Utilities.
However, only the package specification is included in the book. You
must send away for the implementation.

	Where can you get these package? How much are they (remember
the deficit)? Are there other packages available. I am currently
getting setup on AdaNet so I will be looking there shortly. What
ever happened to the SIMTEL20 Ada site?

	I know this is alot of questions but I would appreciate
your responses.

	Please respose by email since I rarely look at this group.
Oh and by the way the phone works too (ain't technology great).	

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Re: VALUE and IMAGE operations for FLOAT

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In article <1h9j75INNs2i@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, matthias@nimbus.larc.nasa.gov
(Larry Matthias) writes: 

|>      I am interested in finding a software reuseable package that
|> performs the equivalent VALUE and IMAGE operations but for the FLOAT
|> type. I saw that Grady Booch has a package in his "Software Components
|> with Ada" that supports this in the package Floating_Point_Utilities.
|> However, only the package specification is included in the book. You
|> must send away for the implementation.
|>
|>      Where can you get these package? How much are they (remember
|> the deficit)?

Here's a solution that even those on a government budget can afford: 

Instantiate Text_IO.Float_IO.  Use the string-to-float version of Get to
write your own Value function (or use Get directly if that solves your
problem).  Use the float-to-string version of Put write your own Image
function (or use Put directly).

Your compiler maker has already done the hard work by providing these
procedures.

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