From: Niklas Holsti <nholsti@icon.fi>
Subject: Re: Simple Real_Time.Time_Span question
Date: 1998/10/14
Date: 1998-10-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36250C6B.FA91AB64@icon.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3624E1DC.B083F43A@icon.fi
To correct a typo of mine:
I wrote:
>
> dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> >
> > I need to convert values of Ada.Real_Time.Time_Span into floating point
> > values for use in time-based simulation calculations. I'd think there *has*
> > to be a way to do this, but I don't see one. All I see is the ability to do
> > it indirectly via a conversion to Duration. But that looses the extra
> > accuracy of Time_Span, which was the whole point of using it in the first
> > place.
>
> [ snip ]
> >
> > Thus a package billed as "Real_Time" ought to provide a portable way to get
> > a floating point value of a delta time (time_span). Where is it?
>
> How about taking your Time_Span value, dividing it with Time_Span_Unit
> to get an integer, then multiplying with Time_Span to get a real number?
********* should be Time_Unit
> The items Time_Span_Unit, "/" and Time_Span are defined in
********* should be Time_Unit
> Ada.Real_Time.
>
> I haven't tried it, but the LRM seems clear on this.
>
> Niklas Holsti
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-13 0:00 Simple Real_Time.Time_Span question dennison
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-15 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-15 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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