From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:29:29 +0000 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] fun and scary evil C code In-Reply-To: <45359f79d760ffae8f9d6d769e8087c2@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3FA5A9CA-EE09-4FDB-A9AA-118E3E8A3AB6@mac.com> <45359f79d760ffae8f9d6d769e8087c2@quanstro.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1da651e6-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Dec 20, 2007 12:51 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > in any event, if ieee is used, i think the trick is safe. surely it depends crucially on the consistency of the decimal to float conversion? is that standard?