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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: What is the warning about builtin-function on gcc-4.6.0 ?
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:14:26 +0100
Date: 2011-03-26T16:14:25+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1n6308pk6569t.tyc9cc9l3fcn$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tyeqi3h6.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:24:37 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * ytomino:
> 
>> nn...then, there are no function to take infinity and NaN...
> 
> There has to be something in the language, somewhere, but I can't find
> it.  A.5.3 in Ada 2005 would be an obvious location (attributes on
> floating point types), but it's not there.

Ada floating point types are not necessarily IEEE.

Luckily you can kill the IEEE stuff even if the machine is IEEE:

   subtype No_Mess is Float range Float'Range; -- No surprises any more

When interfacing C, one IMO should always add a range or validity check
when taking floating-point values from C, to prevent non-numbers leaking
out. Unfortunately it is a lot of work, so no Ada bindings actually follows
this rule.

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



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-26 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-26  6:32 What is the warning about builtin-function on gcc-4.6.0 ? ytomino
2011-03-26  8:45 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-26  9:13   ` ytomino
2011-03-26  9:43     ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-26 10:07       ` ytomino
2011-03-26 10:24         ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-26 15:14           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-03-26 21:36             ` ytomino
2011-03-27  9:50               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-03-26 14:50         ` Simon Wright
2011-03-26 15:50           ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-26 16:32             ` Simon Wright
2011-03-26 17:02               ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-26 17:48                 ` Simon Wright
2011-03-26 18:48                   ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-27  2:08                 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-27  8:37                   ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-27 16:41                     ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-27 17:21                       ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-27 17:56                         ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-27 16:51                     ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-27 17:05                       ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-27 17:14                         ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-29  2:20                           ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-29 18:35                             ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-29 23:35                               ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-30  1:02                               ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-30 12:57                                 ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-30 14:41                                   ` Adam Beneschan
2011-03-30 18:39                                     ` Robert A Duff
2011-03-30 19:28                                   ` Randy Brukardt
2011-03-26 21:58       ` ytomino
2011-03-26 22:00         ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-26 22:22 ` anon
2011-03-26 22:36   ` ytomino
2011-03-27 12:00     ` anon
2011-03-27 18:50       ` ytomino
2011-03-27 23:35         ` anon
2011-03-27 23:42         ` anon
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