From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Why no 'Floor for fixed point types
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:49:08 -0600
Date: 2003-10-27T12:49:08-06:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: bnen7p$vjo06$1@ID-25716.news.uni-berlin.de
"Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org> wrote in message
news:bnen7p$vjo06$1@ID-25716.news.uni-berlin.de...
> For a conforming compiler, there should be no rounding issues in the case
> Scale=1/Tf'Small, the division is a static expression (which should be
> calculated precisely at compile time), and I would expect the
> multiplications to be eliminated.
Not true if Tf is a generic formal type (and this is a common way to
implement such code). Moreover, if you use a code-sharing compiler such as
Janus/Ada, it won't be calculated at compile-time, either.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-23 20:09 Why no 'Floor for fixed point types Duncan Sands
2003-10-23 22:06 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-24 16:00 ` Stephen Leake
2003-10-24 18:13 ` Duncan Sands
2003-10-23 23:10 ` Martin Dowie
2003-10-24 21:46 ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-25 4:29 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-25 20:42 ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-25 22:40 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-27 18:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-10-28 1:19 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-28 18:23 ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-28 18:34 ` Stephane Richard
2003-10-29 19:26 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-10-30 4:55 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-10-28 18:10 ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-27 18:49 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2003-10-28 18:32 ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-29 19:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-10-30 23:41 ` Nick Roberts
2003-10-31 22:25 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-11-06 2:41 ` Nick Roberts
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