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From: Niklas Holsti <nholsti@icon.fi>
Subject: Re: Simple Real_Time.Time_Span question
Date: 1998/10/14
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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