From: the one and only real true kibo <kibo@dhp.com>
Subject: Re: Fixed-point
Date: 1997/03/29
Date: 1997-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5hjijg$2hq@stronghold.dhp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.859584171@merv
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On 28 Mar 1997 16:24:34 -0500 in article <dewar.859584171@merv> posted to comp.lang.ada, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> Jeff Carter asks
> <<Jack Crenshaw's "Programmer's Toolbox" column in *Embedded Systems
> Programming* has been discussing implementing multiple precision
> integers and fixed-point types in C++ for some time. I was wondering
> when he'd address why you'd go to the effort, rather than use a language
> with fixed-point type support. In the 1997 Apr issue, he does:
> "The designers of Ada ... tried to get too fancy. Instead of restricting
> the type to words commensurate with the natural word length of the
> computer, they gave us a more general definition that allows for words
> of any bit length and any resolution. ... [T]he end result was the same:
> fixed-point operations are so slow in Ada that few people bother to use
> the type, and many Ada shops prohibit their use as a matter programming
> style."
> Has anyone encountered this phenomenon?>>
> Robet replies
> I doubt anyone has "encountered this phenomenon" since the quotation
> is complete nonsense, and shows that the author knows nothing about
> fixed-point in Ada. There are some problems with fixed-point, especially
> in Ada 83, but they are essenti9ally fixed in Ada 95. For a detailed
> discussion of these problems, see my repot on fixed-point, this was
> one of the SEI reports done for the Ada 9X development effort.
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1997-03-28 0:00 Fixed-point Jeff Carter
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Fixed-point Tom Moran
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Fixed-point Robert Dewar
1997-03-29 0:00 ` the one and only real true kibo [this message]
1997-03-29 0:00 ` Fixed-point Robert A Duff
1997-03-30 0:00 ` Fixed-point Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-11 0:00 ` Fixed-point Ken Garlington
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