Subject: Reading 32-bit IEEE floats from binary file ??
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:46:03 -0700
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
Robert> Note that there's no guarantee that 32-bit and 64-bit IEEE-754 floats
Robert> correspond exactly to Lisp float types. The numericalio code guesses
Robert> that double and long floats are 64 bits and short and single are 32
Robert> bits. This is incorrect for at least one known Lisp -- GCL, in which all
Robert> floats are 64 bits iirc.
Not quite. IIRC, gcl's short-float is an IEEE single precision float,
and single-float, double-float, and long-float are IEEE double
precision floats.
Ray