From: "Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Portable Ada floating-point binary I/O ?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:03:59 -0700
Date: 2006-08-28T19:03:59-07:00 [thread overview]
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"Gautier" <gautier@fakeaddress.nil> wrote in message
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> Hullo!
> Does somebody know about a way of doing floating-point I/O which
> is portable across architectures (endianesses etc.) and a little
> bit more compact than the representation with digits ?
> If yes, is there an open-source Ada package doing it ?
> TIA, Gautier
I would suggest looking up XDR (the relevent one stands for "external data
representation").
Searching for XDR and Ada comes up with a few hits you might try looking
into.
I hope this helps,
Steve
(The Duck)
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-26 19:02 Q: Portable Ada floating-point binary I/O ? Gautier
2006-08-26 20:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-08-27 20:34 ` Gautier
2006-08-28 11:55 ` Stephen Leake
2006-09-04 22:18 ` Gautier
2006-08-29 2:03 ` Steve [this message]
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