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Annex F: Information Systems
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This Annex provides a set of facilities relevant to Information Systems programming. These fall into several categories:

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• an attribute definition clause specifying Machine_Radix for a decimal subtype;

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• the package Decimal, which declares a set of constants defining the implementation's capacity for decimal types, and a generic procedure for decimal division; and

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• the child packages Text_IO.Editing and Wide_Text_IO.Editing, which support formatted and localized output of decimal data, based on ``picture String'' values.

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See also: 3.5.9, ``Fixed Point Types''; 3.5.10, ``Operations of Fixed Point Types''; 4.6, ``Type Conversions''; 13.3, ``Representation Attributes''; A.10.9, ``Input-Output for Real Types''; B.4, ``Interfacing with COBOL''; B.3, ``Interfacing with C''; Annex G, ``Numerics''.

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The character and string handling packages in Annex A, ``Predefined Language Environment'' are also relevant for Information Systems.

Implementation Advice

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If COBOL (respectively, C) is widely supported in the target environment, implementations supporting the Information Systems Annex should provide the child package Interfaces.COBOL (respectively, Interfaces.C) specified in Annex B and should support a convention_identifier of COBOL (respectively, C) in the interfacing pragmas (see Annex B), thus allowing Ada programs to interface with programs written in that language.

Clauses and Subclauses

1. Machine_Radix Attribute Definition Clause
2. The Package Decimal
3. Edited Output for Decimal Types -- TOC
   1. Picture String Formation
   2. Edited Output Generation
   3. The Package Text_IO.Editing
   4. The Package Wide_Text_IO.Editing

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