From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Fixed Point Numbers
Date: 1999/06/08
Date: 1999-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc909uhbdb.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 374DBCE1.9FB720E6@mitre.org
"Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org> writes:
> In both cases you should get exactly the same representation, and
> operations that use hardware overflow to do range checking, although you
> may (or may not) get different values for 'Last. The definition of
> fixed point types cleverly does not require that the end points of the
^^^^^^^^
> specified range be values of the (sub)type. ...
You misspelled "confusingly". ;-)
After all, I don't expect this:
type T is range -2**31..2**31;
to fit in 32 bits!
- Bob
--
Change robert to bob to get my real email address. Sorry.
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1999-05-27 0:00 Fixed Point Numbers Robert I. Eachus
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