From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b3e361752e757bb8 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.90.36 with SMTP id bt4mr5637807pab.5.1350556502390; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:35:02 -0700 (PDT) Path: s9ni21184pbb.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!gegeweb.org!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:34:26 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fixed Point number mul, is it a bug? References: <422cd822-6d9a-4909-9009-995d845180b8@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <507fdb32$0$6641$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Oct 2012 12:34:26 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 0b1d92fc.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=A5NoDRkTLWSmG86`U=_nC_A9EHlD;3YcR4Fo<]lROoRQ8kFZLh>_cHTX3j]oRThL4o[kkU X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-10-18T12:34:26+02:00 List-Id: On 18.10.12 09:57, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > A binary fixed point type has values which > are not necessarily exact decimal ones. In RM's language it would read as > "the small" is not a power of 10. And if GNAT is with -gnatwa (all warnings), it will mention the issue.