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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: Gnat's Ada.Float_Text_IO.Put problem
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Date: 2004-01-16T09:23:49+01:00

On Thursday 15 January 2004 19:50, tmoran@acm.org wrote:
> >>    Ada.Text_IO.Put (Float'Image (myfloat));
> >
> >That didn't work either.
>
>   Depending on the range of your numbers, perhaps you should try using
> fixed point, or convert to fixed point for printout.

Wouldn't it be better to recompile the GNAT runtime library with
debugging turned on (-g), and step through it with the debugger
to find out exactly where things are going wrong?

All the best,

Duncan.