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Date: | Sun, 4 Feb 1996 11:43:08 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com> |
Cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: binary representation of floats |
On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Erik Max Francis wrote: > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Every book on Intel CPUs describes this. To get a bit pattern of any > > float or double variable, cast them to an unsigned int and use the usual > > bit operations. (In the case of double, you'll have to use long long.) > > you need > > *(unsigned int *) &f. Right, that's what I had in mind (but didn't say). Thanks for clarifying this.
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