From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: How unchecked conversion works?
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:55:44 +0000
Date: 2005-01-14T15:55:44+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.51.1105718131.527.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <huRFd.84215$C94.3893@tornado.fastwebnet.it>
As others have said, don't use unchecked_conversion for this.
And yes, the result value if of course predictable, namely as per
section 3.4 of the RM, enigmatically entitled "Type Conversions":
"If the target type is an integer type and the operand type is real, the
result is rounded to the nearest integer (away from zero if exactly
halfway between two integers)" (33)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-14 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-13 18:54 How unchecked conversion works? None
2005-01-13 21:22 ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-01-13 22:28 ` Keith Thompson
2005-01-14 0:17 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-14 15:23 ` None
2005-01-14 15:55 ` Marius Amado Alves [this message]
2005-01-14 22:29 ` Keith Thompson
2005-01-14 23:15 ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-01-15 1:27 ` Keith Thompson
2005-01-15 2:15 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-15 10:24 ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-01-15 12:02 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-15 16:54 ` Nick Roberts
2005-01-16 16:14 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-16 16:41 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-01-16 20:52 ` TCSEC security levels [was: How unchecked conversion works?] Nick Roberts
2005-01-17 15:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-17 0:34 ` How unchecked conversion works? Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-17 1:29 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-01-17 4:20 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-15 18:24 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-01-14 16:52 ` Mark H Johnson
2005-01-14 22:27 ` Keith Thompson
2005-01-14 22:49 ` Stephen Leake
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