Re: Ada decimal types

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

"REH" <spamjunk@stny.rr.com> writes:

> We are in the process of converting our software from '83 to '95, and
> have the opportunity to port over to some of the new features 95
> provides.  We have a 64-bit mission time that is represented as a
> record of two 32-bit values (one for seconds and one for microseconds).
>  Is it advantagous to use:
>
> type Mission_Time_Type is delta 1.0e-6 digits 16 range 0.0 .. (2.0**32)
> - 1.0;
>
> instead?  

Instead of what? you didn't say what type the 32 bit values have.

I would use a fixed point type, not a decimal type.

I would also use a 64 bit fixed point type, rather than a split
record, but you probably can't change that.


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-- Stephe