Re: How to round to the nearest fixed-point value?

[adambeneschan@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:02:59 PM UTC-8, Natasha Kerensikova wrote:
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> > I'm pretty sure this is a compiler bug.  Since Low'Small is a multiple of High'Small, you can work around it by changing the definition of Convert to
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> >     return Low (Value + Low'Small / 2);
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> > (Low'Small is a universal real and therefore Low'Small/2 will be interpreted as a value of type High.  The type conversion to Low will truncate.)
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> I have been considering that, however it seems type conversion truncates
> towards zero, so the expression above is only correct for positive
> Values, while Low'Small/2 should be subtracted when Value is negative.
> 
> Or am I missing something?

My fault, I forgot about negative values.

                              -- Adam