From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E42BC68 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:27:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9GGRUfu031306 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:27:31 +0200 Received: from [84.58.159.182] (helo=gate.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML29c-1GZVJI0H4t-00007p; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:27:28 +0200 Received: from flakew.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de (fw.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de [192.168.1.1]) by gate.lan.gerd-stolpmann.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA8BC35C; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:27:22 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Reading 16 bit floats from stream? From: Gerd Stolpmann To: Maurizio Colucci Cc: caml-list In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:27:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1161016042.18038.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:a6865a839c0178d9aa0ce41878507ea2 X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 4533B2F2.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; gerd:01 stolpmann:01 binary:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 viktoriastr:01 64293:01 darmstadt:01 6151:01 6151:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 int:01 int:01 floats:02 Am Montag, den 16.10.2006, 18:03 +0200 schrieb Maurizio Colucci: > > > On 10/16/06, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > Hi, > > I need to read a sequence of single precision floats (16 bits) > from a binary file. How can I do that? > > Sorry, I mean 32 bits. Single precision floats are 32 bits. Well, have heard of even 8 bit floats... 32 bit floats can be read. First read the 4 bytes and make an int32 of them. Then simply call Int32.float_of_bits. Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gerd Stolpmann * Viktoriastr. 45 * 64293 Darmstadt * Germany gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de http://www.gerd-stolpmann.de Phone: +49-6151-153855 Fax: +49-6151-997714 ------------------------------------------------------------