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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Float IO & possible gcc screw up (newbie)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 13:39:55 -0600
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Ada Float is C Float
and Ada Long_Float is C Double.

"Pieter Thysebaert" <pieter.thysebaert@pandora.be> wrote in message
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> Hello ,
>
> I'm kinda new to Ada.
>
> I've just compiled my first package (I think, well I've ended up with an
.o
> file)
> Now I wrote a little test program.
> However this test program needs to output variables of type 'double'.
> How do I do that ?
> I've read about "instantiating Float_IO" ... but I have not been able to
get
> it to work.
>
> All the above was done (or not yet done) using gnat for MS-DOS (or
windows).
> But I would like to get a linux version working.
> However , the ms-dos version definitely has a file called "gcc" .
> How can I install gnat for linux without screwing my existing (and
working)
> gcc version ?
>
> Pieter
>
>
>
>