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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: simple question on long_float/short_float
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:58:52 +0200
Date: 2010-09-30T08:58:52+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i81cff$nlc$1@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i81a1r$3or$1@speranza.aioe.org>

Le 30/09/2010 08:17, Nasser M. Abbasi a �crit :
> Ada experts:
> 
> Is Ada's long_float like Fortran double precision? and short_float is
> like Fortran single precision (just called real in Fortran)?
There is nothing in the standard that guarantees this. Float and
Long_Float are just floating point types, with greater accuracy for
Long_Float.

On the other hand, package Interfaces.Fortran provides types Real and
Double_Precision, which are required to match the corresponding Fortran
types.


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-30  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-30  6:17 simple question on long_float/short_float Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-09-30  6:58 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2010-09-30  8:31   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-09-30  8:45     ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-09-30  9:59       ` Mark Lorenzen
2010-09-30 13:30       ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-09-30  8:46     ` AdaMagica
2010-09-30 10:02     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-09-30 15:37     ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-09-30 18:22       ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-09-30 21:21       ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-10-01  0:29         ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-01 11:13           ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-10-02 19:57         ` Simon Wright
2010-09-30 15:56     ` Adam Beneschan
2010-10-02  9:11 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-02  9:48   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-10-02 20:09     ` Simon Wright
2010-10-02  9:56   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-10-02 10:45   ` cjpsimon
2010-10-02 16:52   ` Jeffrey Carter
2010-10-02 20:01     ` Georg Bauhaus

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