From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Subject: Re: Is Ada on VAX/VMS Ada 95
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:12:35 GMT
Date: 2006-06-27T02:12:35+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lnsllrqrcd.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cb6mmtj9nXfy@eisner.encompasserve.org
Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> In article <1151342831.094972.295360@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>,
> "Chris L" <clusardi2k@aol.com> writes:
>
>> What are the differences of Vax Ada and Ada 95?
>
> VAX Ada conforms to the Ada 83 standard.
>
> One major reason why there is no Ada 95 implementation on VAX is
> that Ada 95 requires IEEE floating point semantics while the VAX
> hardware provides VAX floating point semantics.
I don't believe that's correct. The floating-point model is intended
to be flexible enough to cover any existing hardware that implements a
mantissa-exponent model (IEEE, VAX, IBM, etc.). See section G.2.1.
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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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2006-06-26 19:36 ` Is Ada on VAX/VMS Ada 95 Larry Kilgallen
2006-06-27 2:12 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
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2006-06-27 14:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-06-27 16:57 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-27 16:51 ` Martin Krischik
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