From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: fixed point type over an interface.
Date: 1997/02/12
Date: 1997-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.855762757@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9702121344.AA05341@most
Wes said
<<If you are using Ada-83, I know of at least one compiler where a rep-spec
on 'Small cannot be trusted. This compiler always uses a multiple of
four bits for the fractional part, and for the integer part, uses the
smallest multiple of four bits that can hold the range.
>>
There can always be bugs in compilers, and this is clearly one! If it is
still there in the current release, it should be fixed.
But I don't see any point in suggesting that ones choice of techniques
should be influenced by one particular bug in one particular compiler
that you happen to know about!
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1997-02-12 0:00 fixed point type over an interface W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
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