From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!border1.nntp.hkg.giganews.com!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: PragmAda Software Engineering Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: ANN: Beta PragmARCs for ISO/IEC 8652:2007 Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:14:02 -0700 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.72.48.221 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1397322815 82572 162.72.48.221 (12 Apr 2014 17:13:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:13:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 X-Original-Bytes: 2045 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:185705 Date: 2014-04-12T10:14:02-07:00 List-Id: A new version of the beta release of the PragmAda Reusable Components for ISO/IEC 8652:2007 is available at http://pragmada.x10hosting.com/pragmarc.htm This version includes an implementation of the Threefry random-number generator, an Unbounded_Integers package, and a Rational_Numbers package. Threefry is a fully CRUSH compliant random-number generator, and is claimed to be the fastest such generator. Threefry is an encryption-based generator, derived from the Threefish encryption scheme. This implementation assumes the existence of Interfaces.Unsigned_64. Unbounded_Integers implements integers bounded only by available memory. Many similar packages implement bounded integers, such as the package that is part of the Ada Crypto library. This implementation uses a standard container to avoid explicit access types and memory management. Rational_Numbers uses Unbounded_Integers to implement unbounded rational values. Error reports, comments, and suggestions are always welcome. -- Jeffrey R. Carter, President PragmAda Software Engineering --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---