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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!gandalf.srv.welterde.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: getting same output as gfortran, long_float Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 09:22:08 +0200 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: <87618c225b.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> References: <1kxou0nloqg9c$.1x0itzgdrlosm$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.56.215.87.mobile.3.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1430464928 27348 109.56.215.87 (1 May 2015 07:22:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 07:22:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rz1oEUVnokmr3AfU+70UPeVoXVc= Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:192986 Date: 2015-05-01T09:22:08+02:00 List-Id: Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > So, I guess the summary of all this is: gfortran supports this library > now directly, but to use it in Ada, more work would be needed by the > user to interface to it (may be gnat needs also to also add support to > allow user code to access this library as well). The Ada library PHCpack also contains a quad-double implementation (both scalar and complax numbers): https://github.com/janverschelde/PHCpack/blob/master/src/Ada/Math_Lib/QD/quad_double_numbers.ads Greetings, Jacob -- "When we cite authors we cite their demonstrations, not their names" -- Pascal