Ada Programming/Attributes/'Compose
Description
X'Compose(Fraction : X, Exponent : Integer) is an Ada attribute where X is any floating point type.
Floating point types are represented as:
where
- sign is 1 or -1
- mantissa is a fraction in base radix
- radix is the hardware radix (usually 2)
- exponent is an integer
'Compose(Fraction, Exponent) returns the floating point number Fraction with the exponent replaced with Exponent.
Example
with Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Compose is
package T_IO renames Ada.Text_IO;
package F_IO is new Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO (Float);
X : Float := 1.0;
begin
T_IO.Put (" X = ");
F_IO.Put(Item => X, Exp => 0);
T_IO.New_Line;
for Exp in -2..2 loop
T_IO.Put ("Float'Compose(X, " & Integer'Image(Exp) & ") = ");
F_IO.Put(Item => Float'Compose(X, Exp), Exp => 0);
T_IO.New_Line;
end loop;
end Compose;
The output with GNAT 4.6 on the x86-64 architecture is:
X = 1.00000
Float'Compose(X, -2) = 0.12500
Float'Compose(X, -1) = 0.25000
Float'Compose(X, 0) = 0.50000
Float'Compose(X, 1) = 1.00000
Float'Compose(X, 2) = 2.00000