From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: binary to float
Date: 24 Feb 2000 13:40:08 -0800
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
> 
> > unsigned long l;
> > float x;
> > fread(&l, sizeof l, 1, fp);
> > l = ntohl(l);
> > x = *(float *)&l;
> > 
> > My question, is this really more portable? In the libc info for ntohl 
> > under Portability I read: not ANSI, not POSIX. Is this function 
> > generally available?
> 
> I've seen them on every Unix box I had access to.
> 
> > Also, one other problem might arise when 
> > unsigned long is 64bit (i.e. Alpha, which uses IEEE floating point).
> 
> I don't have access to an Alpha to check.  Anybody?

I do, but the original test program has been snipped, and I'm not
entirely sure from context what it was testing.  Someone care to send
it to me?

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Nate Eldredge
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