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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,75c440b4b7ed5f91
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder3.cambrium.nl!feeder5.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!not-for-mail
From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Real Time IO routines
References: <1193410739.367181.96050@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>
	<1193416987.425545.80810@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
	<1193417619.216687.95600@v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
	<1193418278.033289.106280@y27g2000pre.googlegroups.com>
	<1193419270.872928.86840@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:36:08 +0200
Message-ID: <873avxg1uv.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:+s+vNTJ6HC/WGCWMBLrP+LR8K8U=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Organization: Tele2
X-Trace: 
 DXC=S=^mNVd58mL`^::nj0N64D6`Y6aWje^YJnX^E0Je9A<OQe0>=4DdV@@aSb3mW<BMXA260^6D\D2cL
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2592
Date: 2007-10-26T20:36:08+02:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

andrew writes:
> Time_Unit is defined as a constant := 10#1.0#E-9, is Time_Unit then
> a "real literal"?  How can I convert a "real literal" to a scalar
> type (maybe that's a contradiction?)?

Real literals are of the type universal_real which (a) is scalar and
(b) converts implicitly to any other floating-point type.  Does that
answer your question?

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.