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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: How to modify Standard types in GNAT-3.11?
Date: 1999/02/19
Date: 1999-02-19T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7aijsf$j39$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uiuczpcyy.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov

In article <uiuczpcyy.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>,
  Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> tonya@aban.ece.ubc.ca (Tony R. Ambardar) writes:
>
> Since you are recompiling the run-time, you can certainly
> edit any file you want. However, it would be better to
> simply delete Long_long_Float, since you won't support
> it. Don't lie and make it not
> bigger than Long_Float!

Bad idea! Stephen, I guess you are not that familiar with
the GNAT run-time library. Long_Long_Float is used in many
many units, and indeed the expected thing is that it be
equivalent to Long_Float if IEEE extended is not supported.
Even doing this equivalence is not so easy!

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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-02-18  0:00 How to modify Standard types in GNAT-3.11? Tony R. Ambardar
1999-02-18  0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-02-19  0:00   ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-02-19  0:00     ` Tony R. Ambardar
1999-02-19  0:00       ` robert_dewar
1999-02-22  0:00     ` Stephen Leake
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