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: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!reality.xs3.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: Differences between Ada 83 and other revisions Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:06:08 +0100 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: <87d2ipu6un.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> References: <19ac8735-7a9c-429f-a111-a1b3c4b0985b@googlegroups.com> <3872de7d-2df4-4ddb-8348-45eb03b3588e@googlegroups.com> <6aca36a4-cd78-4098-a1f7-646cb37cd14d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: monowall.adaheads.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1392386768 3818 86.48.41.195 (14 Feb 2014 14:06:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:06:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QjiZVO4FJVka5r0coC492KH/9aE= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:18557 Date: 2014-02-14T15:06:08+01:00 List-Id: 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!"