From: "Olivier Andrieu" <oandrieu@gmail.com>
To: p.donadeo@gmail.com, "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias@virtutech.se>,
caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strange behaviour of string_of_float
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:50:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95513600806230150v6122959rb6b5e0770b237ab1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080623083254.7901F82040@kicki.hq.vtech>
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:32, Mattias Engdegård <mattias@virtutech.se> wrote:
>>My intent is to extract an ASCII representation of an OCaml float
>>value so that it can be used to recreate *exactly* the same value, at
>>least on the same architecture.
>
> A somewhat more portable (and readable, maybe) representation of
> floating-point numbers is in hex (a la C99). It is independent of the
> precision and binary format used. Unfortunately, ocaml's Printf has
> already appropriated %a for a different purpose, but it remains a good
> option for those willing to do some manual work.
>
> I have used it in the past to good effect in text-based interchange
> formats between applications written in C.
Indeed, that's a good solution. It's possible to use this %a
conversion directly, without writing external C code:
(* this external is in pervasives.ml *)
external format_float : string -> float -> string = "caml_format_float"
let hex_string_of_float f =
format_float "%a" f
# hex_string_of_float pi ;;
- : string = "0x1.921fb54442d18p+1"
Mind that this only works if the underlying C library knows how to
handle this C99 conversion specifier (MSVC6 doesn't for instance).
--
Olivier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-23 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-22 16:56 Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-22 19:58 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-06-22 20:45 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-23 1:25 ` Brian Hurt
2008-06-23 7:50 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-23 8:32 ` Mattias Engdegård
2008-06-23 8:50 ` Olivier Andrieu [this message]
2008-06-23 8:35 ` Jon Harrop
2008-06-22 20:32 ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-06-22 20:50 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-06-23 8:45 ` David Allsopp
2008-06-23 8:55 ` Olivier Andrieu
2008-06-23 12:06 ` David Allsopp
2008-06-23 1:06 ` Brian Hurt
2008-06-23 7:58 ` Xavier Leroy
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