From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Bignum modular types in Ada95
Date: 1998/02/09
Date: 1998-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.887001313@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bd3358$d224af00$LocalHost@xhv46.dial.pipex.com
Nick said
<<But Robert, this doesn't answer the question of what the compiler does by
default.
>>
Talking about the default representation of decimal fixed.
The answer is that decimal fixed is like COMPUTATIONAL in COBOL, the
semantics of arithmetic on this type and the set of values are well
specified, but the *representation* is implementation dependent.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-27 0:00 Bignum modular types in Ada95 Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Dmitriy Anisimkov
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-07 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-02-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-02-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
[not found] ` <EnIIvn.3zr@world.std.com>
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Mats Weber
[not found] ` <EnKEtu.KGp@world.std.com>
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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