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Re: Routine for converting 80x87 doubles to XDR (IEEE) format? [message #1169]

Wed, 07 July 1993 12:53

ryba
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Registered: October 1992

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In article <1993Jul6.212653.13279@ll.mit.edu>, ryba@ll.mit.edu (Marty Ryba) writes:
|> 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.

Thanks to Bill Thompson and some other reading, here's the result:

pro dblswap,arr
; Procedure to byte-swap 8-byte reals

sa = size(arr)
atype = sa(sa(0)+1)
if atype ne 5 then message,'Only for double precision numbers!'
npts = sa(sa(0)+2)
temp = byte(arr,0,8,npts) ; Convert to bytes
temp = rotate(temporary(temp),5) ; Matrix rotation
arr(0) = double(temp,0,npts) ; Convert back to double

return
end

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		Re: Routine for converting 80x87 doubles to XDR (IEEE) format? By: ryba on Wed, 07 July 1993 12:53
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