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Routine for converting 80x87 doubles to XDR (IEEE) format? [message #1175]

Tue, 06 July 1993 14:26

ryba
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Registered: October 1992

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I'd like to read in some data dumped from a PC that includes some
8-byte reals. BYTEORDER only does byte swaps for shorts (2 bytes) and
longs (4 bytes). If I recall, the 80x87 uses IEEE format, but with the
"little endian" format of the Intel chip. Is that correct? If so, I just
need an extended byte-order to do an 8-byte swap. If not, a canned routine
to do the conversion would be nice.

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