Re: Simple program to find average of 3 numbers

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com>]

Pascal Obry wrote:
> vashwath@rediffmail.com (prashna) writes:
> 
> 
>>O.K, I have changed line 12 to  AVG := (OBJ1+OBJ2+OBJ3)/3;
>>But still it giving constraint error!!! :((
> 
> This is just not possible or it is a compiler bug (quite unlikely though). Be
> sure to recompile and link your program.

Oh, no, it is very possible.  It depend on the actual base type chosen 
by the compiler.  If that type is an 8-bit signed type, then since 210 > 
127 you get Constraint_Error.  That is why I changed the type 
declaration to a subtype declaration in my rewrite.

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