From: Peter Hermann <ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: How to byte swap an IEEE Float?
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 07:37:26 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2005-07-01T07:37:26+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da2rrm$udi$1@infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 42c47184$0$24923$636a15ce@news.free.fr
Damien <damien.carbonne@free.fr> wrote:
> It is only with floats that problems arise.
of course. I just pointed to copyable code.
Conceivable are (e.g. GNAT-specific) mapped machine independent floating
point types for transfer purposes with a couple of predefined mantissa
and exponent sizes.
They may be more efficient than human readable text strings
(in any number base).
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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
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 [this message]
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