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From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Does Ada 95 conform to the IEEE 754 floating point standard?
Date: 1998/02/04
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In article <gwinn-0402981333140001@dh5055139.res.ray.com>,
gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) wrote:

>IEEE 754 is a hardware representation, handled by the computer.  To access
>these 32-bit single-real numbers, one must declare variables as type
>"float" in ANSI C or type "FLOAT" in Ada [LRM section 3.5.7].  To access
>64-bit double-real numbers, one must declare variables as type "double" in
>C or type "LONG_FLOAT" in Ada [Ada LRM section 3.5.7]. 

It might be better to use the types Interfaces.IEEE_Float_32 and
Interfaces.IEEE_Float_64, because you have no guarantee that types Float
and Long_Float are any different.  If you want the IEEE format, then state
that explicitly, by using the types in package Interfaces.  See AARM B.2
(10.a).