Subject: Reading 32-bit IEEE floats from binary file ??
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 17:25:40 +0000 (UTC)
On 2013-05-24, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:
> Here's what I have so far. This code doesn't handle -0.0s0.
>
> I don't know if it works correctly on gradually underflowing numbers.
>
> I don't know how to get Lisp to deal correctly with NaN's.
Non-numeric floats (inf, nan) don't exist in Common Lisp, so any code to
handle them would have to be implementation-specific. I don't remember
about denormalized numbers. About signed zero, if I recall correctly, it
may or may not exist.
best,
Robert Dodier