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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Fixed point constants issue
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:04:32 +0200
Date: 2010-09-13T20:04:31+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f0l0baynq1x7$.phl9cqpwcr37.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.vizer4qnd20q5n@jellix.jlfencey.com

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:27:30 +0200, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:

> Is this a GNAT bug or am I just stupid?
> 
> Suppose we have a fixed point type (with a rather large delta):
> 
> -- 8< --
> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
> 
> procedure Fixed_Point
> is
>     FEET_PER_METER : constant := 0.3048;
>     HEIGHT         : constant := 10; -- Feet
>
>    type Altitude is delta (2.0**15 / 50_000.0) range 0.0 .. 50_000.0;

[...]  
> Can anyone shed some light on this? This has driven us crazy for weeks now.
> 
> [1] Of course, "Altitude'(HEIGHT * FEET_PER_METER)" yields "0.0" again.
>      At least this is consistent with my understanding so far.

Hmm, what did you expect? 0.3048 (FEET_PER_METER) is 0 when Altitude. That
is because 2.0**15/50_000.0=0.65536 > 0.3048.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13 17:27 Fixed point constants issue Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-13 18:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2010-09-13 18:25   ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-13 19:05     ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-13 20:35       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-13 20:35       ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-09-13 21:06         ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-14  5:39         ` Niklas Holsti
2010-09-24 14:43         ` Markus Schöpflin
2010-09-24 20:05           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-24 21:38           ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-09-24 22:42             ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-25  0:16               ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-09-27 10:33                 ` Markus Schöpflin
2010-09-27 18:57                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-09-28  8:16                     ` Markus Schöpflin
2010-09-28 17:28                       ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-05  6:27                         ` Randy Brukardt
2010-10-05 18:40                           ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-09-27 17:58             ` Adam Beneschan
2010-09-13 20:32     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-13 21:08       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-14  6:54         ` J-P. Rosen
2010-09-14 18:28           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-14  7:47         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-14 17:42           ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-15  8:35             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-15 17:24               ` Vinzent Hoefler
2010-09-15 20:11                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-14 19:44   ` Keith Thompson
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