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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Duration vs. Ada.Real_Time
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:30:45 GMT
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In article <8mac6.9236$R5.473526@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>,
  tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> >I figured that using Duration could give imprecise result.
So I wrote a
> >small program to print out Duration'Small.
>   Don't believe everything that a computer prints out.


Don't believe anything you read in CLA!

Of COURSE GNAT is correct when you ask it to print
Duration'Small, and I suggest believing it :-)

What is wrong is the incorrect idea that it has anything
to do with the resolution of the timer.


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