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Re: Differences between IDL's floats and Java's floats - a problem [message #36948 is a reply to message #36943]

Thu, 13 November 2003 08:42

R.G. Stockwell
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"Neil Crosby" <necr@pml.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:3eda43e9.0311130409.5ee02334@posting.google.com...
> I am currently porting some IDL code across to java, and I've run into
> a couple of snags with the different ways IDL and Java deal with
> numbers. Most of these I have sorted, with trips to the APIs and a
> fair bit of googling. However, there is one I haven't managed to sort
> out yet.
...
> If I run the float code on these same four bytes though, IDL will give
> me 412.50 (the value I want), while Java will give 5.951465E-39 -
> clearly not the number I'm looking for!
...
> Neil

Hi Neil,
as David said, this looks like a endian problem. Check out
http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/books/javaio/ioexamples/07/in dex.html

and there are some classes that deal with little endian inputs.

Cheers,
bob

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		Re: Differences between IDL's floats and Java's floats - a problem By: Nigel Wade on Fri, 14 November 2003 01:41
		Re: Differences between IDL's floats and Java's floats - a problem By: R.G. Stockwell on Thu, 13 November 2003 08:42
		Re: Differences between IDL's floats and Java's floats - a problem By: Neil Crosby on Thu, 13 November 2003 05:38
		Re: Differences between IDL's floats and Java's floats - a problem By: David Fanning on Thu, 13 November 2003 05:05

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