Re: How to byte swap an IEEE Float?

From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:05:16 +0000 (UTC)

Björn wrote:

I need to read some float values from file that have been written in
big-endian byte order from a c-program. The simple swapping procedure
that I have just interchanges the byte order of type IEEE_Float_32 to
get little-endian. The problem is that for some values (eg. 33.229000)
it is a "NaN" when doing IEEE_Float_32'Read and I get a constraint
error (invalid data) from stream_io when the value is read. How do I
get around this?


What's the source/target for the values? PowerPC/ARM/Intelx86/Alpha/etc??
.

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- How to byte swap an IEEE Float?
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