Description

X'Machine_Radix is an Ada attribute where X is any floating or fixed point type.

'Machine_Radix returns the radix of the hardware representation of type X. On most machines this will be 2.

Example

 with Ada.Text_IO;

 procedure Machine_Radix is

   package T_IO renames Ada.Text_IO;
   package I_IO is new  Ada.Text_IO.Integer_IO (Integer);

   type My_Fixed_Point_Type is delta 0.1 range -1.0 .. 1.0;
   type My_Decimal_Type is delta 0.01 digits 10;
 begin
   T_IO.Put ("Radix of Float type            = ");
   I_IO.Put (Float'Machine_Radix);
   T_IO.New_Line;

   T_IO.Put ("Radix of My_Fixed_Point_Type   = ");
   I_IO.Put (My_Fixed_Point_Type'Machine_Radix);
   T_IO.New_Line;

   T_IO.Put ("Radix of My_Decimal_Type type  = ");
   I_IO.Put (My_Decimal_Type'Machine_Radix);
   T_IO.New_Line;
 end Machine_Radix;

The output with GNAT 4.6 on the x86-64 architecture is:

Radix of Float type            =           2
Radix of My_Fixed_Point_Type   =           2
Radix of My_Decimal_Type type  =           2

See also