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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
Subject: Re: Differences between Ada 83 and other revisions
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:06:08 +0100
Date: 2014-02-14T15:06:08+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2ipu6un.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e3a83bb2-483f-4cc4-bc34-a0a67522c9b6@googlegroups.com

yoursurrogategod@gmail.com writes:

> Can you custom specify floats with a specific number of decimal
> spaces?

That sounds like a contradiction.

You can declare floating point types with specific ranges and numbers of
significant digits.  (There are limits to what the compiler is required
to support.)

> Also, are the free and open source versions of the ada compiler used
> often?

Yes.  And also for big, commercial projects.

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"You've got to build bypasses!"

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-14 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-13 15:59 Differences between Ada 83 and other revisions yoursurrogategod
2014-02-13 16:12 ` adambeneschan
2014-02-13 18:00   ` yoursurrogategod
2014-02-13 18:07 ` AdaMagica
2014-02-13 19:44 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-13 21:25   ` yoursurrogategod
2014-02-13 22:00     ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-13 22:18       ` adambeneschan
2014-02-14 13:18         ` yoursurrogategod
2014-02-14 13:53           ` AdaMagica
2014-02-14 14:06           ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2014-02-14 16:47           ` adambeneschan
2014-02-14 14:08         ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-16  9:36         ` Martin
2014-02-16 14:13           ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-16 15:58             ` J-P. Rosen
2014-02-19 22:09               ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-19 22:23                 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-02-19 22:37                   ` Robert A Duff
2014-04-19  8:59                     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-02-19 22:34                 ` adambeneschan
2014-02-19 22:58                   ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-13 21:28 ` yoursurrogategod
2014-02-13 23:31   ` Randy Brukardt
2014-02-20 10:30     ` john
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