IEEE<->DEC floating pt conversion wanted.

Frank Wortner frank at croton.dec.com
Fri Aug 25 03:02:24 AEST 1989


In article <3741 at ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, brg at ecelet.ncsu.edu (Bennett Groshong) writes:

> I have a need to be able to convert data files containing floating
> point numbers (i.e. 32bit floats and 64bit doubles) between IEEE and
> DEC floating point format. 

If you have a DECstation, there is a set of "undocumented" routines
for VAX/IEEE conversion in the standard library.  Details are in
"ULTRIX Release Notes for RISC Processors", Order Number
AA-ML77A-TE.  Look on page 78.

					Frank



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