From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Fixed-point question
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 11:38:07 -0700
Date: 2015-06-27T11:38:07-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mmmqft$sh8$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0320a865-5636-4ac6-81f7-ea56b761ce0d@googlegroups.com>
On 06/27/2015 10:59 AM, Patrick Noffke wrote:
> On Friday, June 26, 2015 at 11:44:07 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>>
>> With a small of 1/180:
>>
>> For C1, AFAICT, the compiler will calculate N/D exactly, getting 44/3 =
>> 14.6666...., and then convert this to Fixed_type, getting 2640/180.
>>
>> For C2, "/" for Fixed_Type is used, so N and D are converted to Fixed_Type
>> first.
>
> My question is whether this is the right thing for the compiler to do.
For C2, definitely. I'm not sure why the type conversion for C1 results in using
the universal-real operator.
--
Jeff Carter
"My brain hurts!"
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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2015-06-26 13:20 Fixed-point question Patrick Noffke
2015-06-26 16:56 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-06-26 18:21 ` Patrick Noffke
2015-06-26 20:21 ` Anh Vo
2015-06-26 20:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-06-27 2:55 ` Patrick Noffke
2015-06-26 23:14 ` Qun-Ying
2015-06-27 3:00 ` Patrick Noffke
2015-06-27 4:44 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-06-27 17:59 ` Patrick Noffke
2015-06-27 18:38 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2015-06-27 19:20 ` Bob Duff
2015-06-27 19:57 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-06-27 20:42 ` Bob Duff
2015-06-28 11:39 ` Brian Drummond
2015-06-29 13:28 ` Patrick Noffke
2015-06-29 14:13 ` Bob Duff
2015-06-27 23:41 ` Anh Vo
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