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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1525d71e3169ed06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Float precision - gnat vs objectada References: <1c8dc73c.0412010746.272b978@posting.google.com> <1237548.0CXMffCGLb@linux1.krischik.com> In-Reply-To: <1237548.0CXMffCGLb@linux1.krischik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:51:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.189.32.253 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1101973872 63.189.32.253 (Wed, 01 Dec 2004 23:51:12 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 23:51:12 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6710 Date: 2004-12-02T07:51:12+00:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik wrote: > P Torle wrote: > >>subtype Real is Long_Float; > > Maybe you want to use Long_Long_Float for maximum precision. The only predefined floating-point type required by the ARM is Float. Maybe he wants to use an application-specific floating-point type, and should realize that if he asks for more digits than the type supports, he will get garbage. -- Jeff Carter "If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate." Monty Python's the Meaning of Life 56