Re: GNAT Ada.Numerics.Aux question

["Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>]

"Happy Segfault" <happysegfault@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all!
>
> I'm trying out GtkAda 2.2.0 on my Red Hat 9 system using gcc 3.2.2,
> and the testgtk OpenGL demo crashes with a constraint error.  I
think
> I've tracked down the problem to a call to Ada.Numerics.Aux.Sin,
which
> is a thin binding to the libm sin function.  What could be going
wrong
> here?  Why isn't Sin (X) getting the expected value in the program
> below?  Oddly, Sqrt (X) seems to work fine.
>
> --
> -- test_sin.adb
> --
> with Ada.Text_IO;
> with Ada.Numerics.Aux;
>
> procedure test_sin is
>   X : Ada.Numerics.Aux.Double;
> begin
>   X := Ada.Numerics.Aux.Double (2.0);
>   X := Ada.Numerics.Aux.Sqrt (X);
>   Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Ada.Numerics.Aux.Double'Image (X));
>   -- output is ' 1.41421356237309505E+00' which is expected
>   X := Ada.Numerics.Aux.Double (30.0 * 3.14159 / 180.0);
>   X := Ada.Numerics.Aux.Sin (X);
>   -- use the pragma Import (C, Sin, "sin"); from Ada.Numerics.Aux
>   Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Ada.Numerics.Aux.Double'Image (X));
>   -- output is '0.E+17' but 0.5 is the expected result
>   Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Float'Image (Float (X)));
>   -- raises constraint error
> end test_sin;
>
> Thanks!
>
> John

Works on Windows XP, Gnat 3.15p:

---------- Run the executable ----------
 1.41421356237309505E+00
 4.99999616987255739E-01
 5.00000E-01
Normal Termination
Output completed (0 sec consumed).

Anders