From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Sun Ada 3.0 / 2.1.1
Date: 1999/05/22
Date: 1999-05-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7vd7ztoyfs.fsf@pogner.moho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37408CC0.5E601B20@sll.northrop.com
Guy Calinsky <calinsky@sll.northrop.com> writes:
> I have a requirement to upgrade my project's compiler from Sun Ada 2.1.1
> to Sun Ada 3.0.
> Easy enough, except that my application makes several calls to C
> functions, passing floating point numbers.
> Whereas my application worked fine under 2.1.1, the floating point
> numbers are not mapping correctly between 3.0 and C and I get junk for
> results. Does anybody know why this is?
> Sun and Rational are being difficult.
I don't _know_ why, but could it be that the old Ada used double and
the new uses float? or vice versa? How have you declared the floating
point numbers in Ada? (sometimes the actual type used depends on your
declared range).
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1999-05-17 0:00 Sun Ada 3.0 / 2.1.1 Guy Calinsky
1999-05-18 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-05-24 0:00 ` fea
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright [this message]
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