Minor improvements to subsection on machine representation#1316
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Looks good! A couple of small comments.
| We can use an overlay to uncover the actual integer values stored on the | ||
| machine when assigning values to objects of decimal type. For example: | ||
| We can use an overlay in the body of the generic :ada:`Gen_Show_Info` procedure | ||
| to uncover the actual integer values stored on the machine for objects of |
| procedure Gen_Show_Info (V : T_Decimal; | ||
| V_Str : String) | ||
| is | ||
| V_Int_Overlay : T_Int_Decimal |
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Perhaps add an assertion that T_Decimal'Size = T_Int_Decimal'Size?
No warning will be generated for a size mismatch if we use an overlay instead of an Unchecked_Conversion instance.
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Minor improvements to subsection on machine representation of fixed-point types.