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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Conversion from floating point to signed 16 bits
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 05:06:31 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 20, 12:11=A0pm, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:
> Olivier Scalbert schrieb:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > My problem:
> > I need to convert an "analogic" value which can vary from 0.0 to 1.0
> > into a "discrete" value which is a signed 16 bits integer.
>
> > My implementation:
> > -----------------------------
> > with Ada.Text_IO;
>
> > procedure convert is
> > =A0 =A0 type Analog_Value is digits 10 range 0.0 .. 1.0;
> > =A0 =A0 type Signed_16 =A0 =A0is range -32768 .. 32767;
> > =A0 =A0 type Unsigned_16 =A0is range =A0 =A0 =A00 .. 65535;
>
> It might be an idea to use a different name
> for Unsigned_16 because this name is also
> declared in standard package Interfaces.
> Or use qualification. Avoids misunderstandings.

Or better - just use package Interfaces instead...

Cheers
-- Martin