Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 16:16:45 +0200
From: pascal DOT richard AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr (Pascal RICHARD)
To: combee AT cambridge DOT scr DOT slb DOT com
Subject: Re:  help with reading floats from file
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Perhaps you must swap low and bytes (0 <-> 3 and 1 <-> 2).

To verify, try my little ugly prgm which dump (low byte to high byte)
3 floating point variables (float, double and long double).

On my SUN, it prints :
40 06 66 66
40 00 CC CC CC CC CC CD
40 00 CC CC CC CC CC CD

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#include <stdio.h>

float f = 2.1;
/*long float lf = 2.1;*/
double d = 2.1;
long double ld = 2.1;

#define PRINT(var) for (i=0 ; i<sizeof(var) ; printf ("%2.2X ", ((unsigned char *)(&var))[i++]));printf ("\n");
void main (void)
  {
  int i;

  PRINT (f);
/*  PRINT (lf);*/
  PRINT (d);
  PRINT (ld);
  }
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