Re: Decimal to floating point and floating point to decimal conversion

[Amit Hiremath <amit.hmath@googlemail.com>]

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OK thanks Henri.

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 11:52 PM <henri.cloetens@blueice.be> wrote:

> Hello Amit,
>
> If you want to do this conversion in C, proceed as follows :
>
> #include "stdio.h"
> #include "stdlib.h"
>
> int main()
> {
> float a = 3.2444422 ;
> int *p = (int *)(&a) ;
> fprintf(stderr,"%08x\n",*p) ;
> }
>
> It will print the hex value, which happens to be the same as yours on my
> machine.
> To convert opposite way, you need to do the opposite pointer
> manipulation.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Henri.
> ~
>
>
> On 2023-07-10 12:27, Amit Hiremath via Gcc-help wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can you please point me to codes in GCC where numbers in human readable
> > format to floating point and floating point to human readable format
> > conversion are taking place? For example: 3.2444422
> > -->404FA4F1-->3.2444422
> >
> > int main ()
> > {
> > float a;
> >
> > a= 3.2444422;
> >
> > return 0;
> >
> > }
> > when you generate asm code, the assembler code is converted to
> > 404FA4F1. So
> > I am looking for a code in the gcc compiler.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Amit
>