Floats to Bytes and back again

Dan Ingalls DanI at wdi.disney.com
Sat Oct 31 16:30:14 UTC 1998


>I'm trying to create a typed FloatArray. There's not a lot in the system
>for converting floats to bytes, so I hacked up something where I use
>basicAt: to extract the first and second dwords, and then strip the
>dwords down a byte at a time (a bit more complex then VW where
>changeClassToThatOf: #[] works handily). But now that I've got it ripped
>down into 8 bytes, I can't figure out how to get the float back again. I
>put the 4 byte chunks back together (via bitShift: and +), but can't use
>basicAt:put: on an instance of a float. Feature, bug,...? Is there a
>better way to do this anyway?
>
>Travis Griggs

I bet you forgot to use Float new: 2 instead of just Float new (which defaults to new: 1).  [This should probably be fixed]

Try the following example:

	 | r |
	r := Float new: 2.
	r basicAt: 1 put: (Float pi basicAt: 1).
	r basicAt: 2 put: (Float pi basicAt: 2).
	r

	- Dan





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