From: dewar@gnat.com
Subject: Re: Ada, Alpha & IEEE Computational Models?
Date: 1999/01/24
Date: 1999-01-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78fvpq$845$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36A88A73.BF261F63@art.co.uk
In article <36A88A73.BF261F63@art.co.uk>,
John Connett <jrc@art.co.uk> wrote:
> The use of pragmas would seem to offer a mechanism for
> finer control of the computational model within
> compilation units. Do any existing Ada language systems
> which target the Alpha architecture offer this level of
> control?
GNAT compilers for the Alpha fully implement the DEC
pragmas (Float_Representation, Long_Float) which provide
fine control of the kind you are looking for. The default
is IEEE, which is of course usually preferable, but
Vax_Float is supported particularly for compatibility with
existing legacy code and data files.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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