Re: [Gm2] Are there standard functions such as FLOAT and TRUNC?

[Gaius Mulley]

Gaius Mulley <address@hidden> writes:

> Carl Glassberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hello, again.
>>
>> Are there standard functions such as FLOAT and TRUNC for conversion
>> to/from SHORTREAL/REAL/LONGREAL?
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> yes FLOAT, TRUNC exist as well as, TRUNCS, TRUNCL.  Watch out for the
> dialect of Modula-2 though since if you use -fpim2 -fpim3 or -fiso
> TRUNC returns a CARDINAL.  Whereas -fpim4 TRUNC returns an INTEGER.
> I'll update the documentation

Hi,

ok I've updated the documentation and should also correct the above it
should read:

TRUNC, FLOAT, STRUNC, SFLOAT, LTRUNC, LFLOAT which matches the naming
schema in ISO.  I've also modified gm2 and testsuite to allow SFLOAT,
LFLOAT etc rather than FLOATS, FLOATL

regards,
Gaius