Re^2: Unpacking extended-double precision floats

Howdy!

Thanks for trying (and no, I'm not being snarky). That doesn't quite cover my situation.

f is a 32-bit "single-precision" float.

d is a 64-bit "double-precision" float.

I'm dealing with 80-bit "extended-double-precision" floats.

yours,
Michael

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Re^3: Unpacking extended-double precision floats by Fengor (Pilgrim) on Nov 29, 2006 at 17:58 UTC
yeah after looking a bit deeper into it i figured as much. Hmm maybe since pack converts into double-precision representation as it is provided by your system it would be possible to fool perl into believing double precision would take 80 bytes instead of 64? I'm reading through the POD of the Config Module as i write this and found the variables d_dbl_digit and d_ldbl_digit to be interesting. but it seems the Config module only supplies readonly access to those variables :/ -- "WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN" -- Terry Pratchett, "Reaper Man"	[reply]

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Re^3: Unpacking extended-double precision floats
by Fengor (Pilgrim) on Nov 29, 2006 at 17:58 UTC

double-precision representation as it is provided by your system

I'm reading through the POD of the Config Module as i write this and found the variables d_dbl_digit and d_ldbl_digit to be interesting. but it seems the Config module only supplies readonly access to those variables :/

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