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From: Anders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>,
	Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com>,
	emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: How to use a float value with either GLYPH_DEBUG or NSTRACE
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:51:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABr8ebasT4nQkM1-DaQ5zrqBPdDjRpJC-DWNJXkUbEmEgmX9-Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-_QrGKoQ-_8u-LnT=7m3Bax3q3_Lw75gmFvQM7U32q2nw@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi!

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Noam Postavsky <
npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:23 AM, Anders Lindgren <andlind@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I think(*) you can use "%a" to print the hexadecimal representation of a
> > floating point number. This prints the floating point number exactly,
> down
> > to the last bit in the mantissa. It looks like 0x0.3p10, where 0x0.3 is
> the
> > "significant" part and "p10" the binary exponent, and it represents the
> > number 0x0.3 * 2^10.
>
> I think this is GNU libc specific, also not as readable for humans.
>

It's part of the C99 standard, see paragraph 7.19.6.1.

True, that it's not as readable. However, in this case it appeared
important to see the exact value. One approach might be to print it both as
a normal number and as a hexadecimal number, after all it is only used for
trace output when debugging the NS port.

    -- Anders

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-22 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-22  4:30 How to use a float value with either GLYPH_DEBUG or NSTRACE Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-22  8:23 ` Anders Lindgren
2017-08-22 11:32   ` Noam Postavsky
2017-08-22 11:51     ` Anders Lindgren [this message]
2017-08-22 15:47     ` Paul Eggert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-08-22 17:04 Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-21 21:45 Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-21 20:51 Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-21 21:30 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-08-21 23:55   ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 17:07 Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-21 20:07 ` Alan Third

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