Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!umd5!umbc3!alex
From: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: casting to float without converting to float?
Message-ID: <686@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 88 00:26:48 GMT
References: <11171@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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In article <11171@brl-adm.ARPA> weiser.pa@Xerox.COM writes:
>I have the following problem:  I have a value which I happen to know has the
>proper bits to represent a floating point number (either 32 or 64).  However, it
>is of type int.  I would now like to tell the C compiler to treat this thing as
>a float. 

union { float f; int i; } foo;

foo.i = int value
foo.f = float value

-- 
					:alex.

alex@umbc3.umd.edu