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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: How to convert an Fixed_Point to to an Integer ?
Date: 1996/12/24
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Date: 1996-12-24T00:00:00+00:00
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"Well, it was completely portable on New Year's Day in 1970, but hasn't
been since then, since Calendar.Clock - Epoch_Time is of type Duration,
whose range is allowed to be as small as -86_400.0 .. 86_400.0, i.e.
plus or minus one day (RM 9.6(27))."


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 ....

So a truly portable solution would have to use a loop ...