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,FREEMAIL_FROM,XPRIO autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,72455bf893c84171,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-10 10:22:05 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!afrodite.telenet-ops.be!not-for-mail From: "Pieter Thysebaert" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Float IO & possible gcc screw up (newbie) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:20:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.118.1.110 X-Complaints-To: abuse@pandora.be X-Trace: afrodite.telenet-ops.be 984248405 213.118.1.110 (Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:20:05 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:20:05 MET Organization: Telenet Internet Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5611 Date: 2001-03-10T18:20:05+00:00 List-Id: Hello , I'm kinda new to Ada. I've just compiled my first package (I think, well I've ended up with an .o file) Now I wrote a little test program. However this test program needs to output variables of type 'double'. How do I do that ? I've read about "instantiating Float_IO" ... but I have not been able to get it to work. All the above was done (or not yet done) using gnat for MS-DOS (or windows). But I would like to get a linux version working. However , the ms-dos version definitely has a file called "gcc" . How can I install gnat for linux without screwing my existing (and working) gcc version ? Pieter