Re: Gnat's Ada.Float_Text_IO.Put problem

["Jeff C," <nolongersafeto@userealemailsniff.com>]

"Duncan Sands" <baldrick@free.fr> wrote in message
news:mailman.10.1074246338.303.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
> On Friday 16 January 2004 09:48, tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> > > Wouldn't it be better to recompile the GNAT runtime library with
> > > debugging turned on (-g), and step through it with the debugger
> > > to find out exactly where things are going wrong?
> >
> >    I'm in favor of debugging incorrect programs.  But was the OP
> > interested in debugging Gnat or in running some program, and getting
> > correct output, of his own?
>
> One way of getting a correctly running program is to fix GNAT yourself.
> For the runtime library this often isn't hard.
>
>

This is somewhat true and that is why it is great to have the compiler but
if the version you are running can't output a simple floating-point valuie
from the simplest of programs...it is time to get a more stable version...