From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: How to byte swap an IEEE Float?
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:05:16 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2005-06-28T16:05:16+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9rsfs$eq1$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1119966822.201891.303810@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Bj�rn wrote:
> I need to read some float values from file that have been written in
> big-endian byte order from a c-program. The simple swapping procedure
> that I have just interchanges the byte order of type IEEE_Float_32 to
> get little-endian. The problem is that for some values (eg. 33.229000)
> it is a "NaN" when doing IEEE_Float_32'Read and I get a constraint
> error (invalid data) from stream_io when the value is read. How do I
> get around this?
What's the source/target for the values? PowerPC/ARM/Intelx86/Alpha/etc??
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-28 13:53 How to byte swap an IEEE Float? Björn
2005-06-28 15:06 ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-06-28 15:55 ` Simon Wright
2005-06-28 16:59 ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-06-28 20:43 ` Björn
2005-06-29 0:13 ` Marius Amado Alves
2005-06-30 19:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-06-28 16:05 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2005-06-28 23:35 ` Stephen Leake
2005-06-29 10:00 ` Björn
2005-06-30 0:52 ` Stephen Leake
2005-07-01 4:51 ` Simon Wright
2005-06-29 20:10 ` Damien
2005-06-30 11:35 ` Peter Hermann
2005-06-30 22:26 ` Damien
2005-07-01 7:37 ` Peter Hermann
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