Date:	Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:45:54 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Looking at the individual bits of a float.
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Graham Reeds wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has any fast ways of looking at the individual
> bits and bytes of a float with or without (preferably) destroying the float
> in question.

What's the problem, exactly?  You don't destroy anything by examining the 
bits, e.g. with "(f & MASK)", where MASK is an appropriately set-up bit 
mask variable.

If your problem is with double's (as opposed to float's), define a union 
of a double and two 32-bit unsigned int's, and do the bit fiddling on the 
int's.

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