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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: How unchecked conversion works?
Date: 13 Jan 2005 18:17:56 -0600
Date: 2005-01-13T18:17:56-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nOKpRpNH9oNe@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lnwtuhdkwc.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org

In article <lnwtuhdkwc.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org>, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> Doing an Unchecked_Conversion from floating-point to integer is
> unlikely to be useful.

Not in Ada, but within the innards of VMS there is (or was, I am not
sure) a place where this was done to get an efficient nonlinear
representation of an operating system value.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-14  0:17 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 [this message]
2005-01-14 15:23 ` None
2005-01-14 15:55   ` Marius Amado Alves
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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