Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.super
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Type punning in C
Message-ID: <1989Oct8.005808.11039@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <475@idacrd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 89 00:58:08 GMT

In article <475@idacrd.UUCP> desj@idacrd.UUCP (David desJardins) writes:
>   Does anyone have any ideas on how one should go about converting an
>integer to the floating-point number with the same bit pattern?  ...
>   It doesn't seem that there is any equally straightforward way to
>accomplish this in C.  I don't want to involve pointers ...

You might try unions.  This is one of the things they're good for,
albeit in a very implementation-specific way.  (Not a problem here,
since the operation is inherently implementation-specific.)

If your compiler won't put unions into registers, complain to your supplier.  
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