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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Why no 'Floor for fixed point types
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:49:08 -0600
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"Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org> wrote in message
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> 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.