Since this is just about the largest "comp" user group I thought I'd try posting this question here: Does anyone know what the bit structure of a VAX floating point number is? The only information I have so far is that each word of the byte sequence is reversed i.e. 1032, not 0123. I need to know which bit is the sign bit, are the exponent and/or the mantissa normalized (i.e. is some number added to the exponent or mantissa), is the exponent base 2,8, or 16, is the two's compliament of the exponen
antissa used instead of the "plain" binary number, etc., etc. If you can help please respond by private E-mail or post back to "comp.lang.c" (I have to write a translation in C). Thanks in advance.
