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.
next prev parent 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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