From: ortmann@us.ibm.com
To: Christian Lindig <lindig@eecs.harvard.edu>
Cc: Caml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>, oleg@pobox.com
Subject: Re: IEEE floating point emulation library?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:20:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8525691F.005F3C40.00@D51MTA04.pok.ibm.com> (raw)
> For a compiler project I am looking for an IEEE floating point
> emulation. I have already checked http://caml.inria.fr/hump.html and
> the OCaml link database for such a libray. Does anybody has written
> something like this for OCaml?
> To answer the obvious question, why not use the built in float data
> type: I need access to the representation at the bit level. Some code
> that decodes a float value into a bit vector (int32/int64) and back
> would be also helpful.
> -- Christian
I received some good IEEE related Scheme code from oleg@pobox.com; maybe
he would know the answer?
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2000-07-17 17:20 ortmann [this message]
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2000-07-12 1:31 Christian Lindig
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