From: kst@aonix.com (Keith Thompson)
Subject: Re: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ?
Date: 1996/12/26
Date: 1996-12-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E30JFv.LsI@thomsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.851480526@merv
In <dewar.851480526@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> True enough, of course in all GNAT compilers, Duration has a vrey large
> range (it is 64 bit signed in units of nanoseconds). I wonder whether
> there really will be Ada 95 compilers with narrow ranges ....
Yes, under ObjectAda the range of type Duration is about +/-131072.0.
(It's a 32-bit type.)
> So a truly portable solution would have to use a loop ...
Actually, a truly portable solution could just use an algorithm to
compute the number of days between two given dates and then account for
the seconds. It's a bit more complicated than it should need to be,
but there's no portability problem.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-12-26 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-12-22 0:00 How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ? Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-24 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-24 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-26 0:00 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
1996-12-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-25 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-26 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-27 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-27 0:00 ` Leap seconds in Unix time (was: Re: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ?) Norman H. Cohen
1996-12-30 0:00 ` How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ? Mike Young
1996-12-30 0:00 ` 2000 is a leap year (was: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Inte) Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-30 0:00 ` How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ? Michael F Brenner
1996-12-31 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-01-02 0:00 ` 2000 is a leap year (was: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Inte) Mike Paley
1996-12-23 0:00 ` How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ? Eric Miller
1996-12-23 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-12-30 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1996-12-30 0:00 ` Dave Barnes
1996-12-30 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1996-12-30 0:00 ` Jacques Rouillard
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