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15 years ago

Single precision converter for floating point

I hope someone can help with this. I've not been able to google my way out of this problem. I want to convert floating point numbers to single precision in hex and storing it in some file for initial...
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15 years ago

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if you write a C program to printf %x a floating point variable what happens?

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The compiler complains *and* you get the wrong answer. Other than that...

You need to fool the compiler a little with the typecast and reference/de-reference...