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From: jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles)
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Subject: Re: IEEE to Cray and back
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Date: 21 Apr 88 13:08:01 GMT
References: <1084@radio.toronto.edu>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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In article <1084@radio.toronto.edu>, brian@radio.toronto.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes:
> 
> Does anyone have any code to deal with ieee to cray (XMP) floating point
> numbers and back?  We have an application that runs under several OS's, that
> can use ieee to most efficiently interchange data (ascii being the
> alternative).  Source code would be preferred since we have to trap NaN's and
> deal with them separately. Thanks.
>
I'd like to see this too (otherwise I have to write it myself).  Please 
note however, the exponent range on the Cray is larger than IEEE double
while the precision of IEEE double is greater than the Cray precision.
You loose something either way.  

J. Giles
Los Alamos