Re: How to make a floating point value part of an activity

[Scott Christley]

At 07:36 PM 4/10/97 -0500, Kevin Crowston wrote:
>
>I wondered about this too (see my earlier postings about storing floats in
>Arrays) so I reread the section on type conversion in the C manual (I
>assume the same rules apply in ObjC).  I had assumed that you could cast
>any 32-bit item to any other by simply reinterpreting the bits, but not so.
>Only int to pointer is allowed and supported;

And you really don't even want to do that because it will cause problems on
the newer 64 bit processors like the Alpha where pointers are 64 bit but
integers are still 32 bit.

Scott


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