From: DIRO <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: osc-insert-float32
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:02:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <181c78e644cf4c25a8382a035c3f3fc0c928d83c.camel@iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736diakx0.fsf@blind.guru>
Le mardi 17 décembre 2019 à 19:04 +0100, Mario Lang a écrit :
> 14 years ago, I wrote this beast to be able to send IEEE floating
> point
> values over the network (Open Sound Control). Reading it today, I am
> actually surprised I was driven enough to get this working. I am
> wondering, is there a better way to achieve this today?
> Maybe something in Emacs itself I missed?
>
> If no, is there a better way to test for negative zero and 0.0e+NaN?
We could easily add a primitive written in C which uses `memcpy` to
generate the IEEE 32bit encoding of a 32bit or 64bit float.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-30 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-17 18:04 osc-insert-float32 Mario Lang
2019-12-17 18:25 ` osc-insert-float32 Andreas Schwab
2019-12-17 19:02 ` osc-insert-float32 Stefan Monnier
2019-12-17 21:10 ` osc-insert-float32 Mario Lang
2022-09-30 19:02 ` DIRO [this message]
2022-09-30 19:33 ` osc-insert-float32 Andreas Schwab
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