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- From: Lucas Giezen <lucas@lexicon.net.au>
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- Subject: BC++ 4.52 Intel Floating Point Format
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 15:30:30 -0800
- Organization: Lexicon Internet Services
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- We are developing on a PC platform and must transfer floats and doubles
- to an IBM mainframe.
-
- We have done a 'study' of the internal formats using debug but around 0 a
- number of strange things occur. Add to this the byte swapping of the
- Intel chip and things really do look odd.
-
- Does anyone have the format of the bits in the internal representation
- for the PC? (We already have the mainframe format). Also the
- representations of 0 and other oddities would be appreciated.
-
- Thanks
-
- Brett Walker
-