OCaml Bigarrays support 32 bit floats, however when you are manipulating
them in OCaml code they are cast to 64 bit floats.  I am not aware of any
other modules that support 32 bit floats, although it wouldn't be that hard
to write your own with a C backend.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Pierre Vittet <piervit@pvittet.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I am using ocaml to analyse java bytecode (http://javalib.gforge.inria.**
> fr/ <http://javalib.gforge.inria.fr/>). The fact is that java has a float
> type which is coded on 32 bits and a double type which is coded on 64 bits.
> I need to make corresponding types but ocaml only has a float coded on 64
> bits (IEE 754 norm, which java respect too), so I don"t know how to get the
> float 32 bits.
>
> Is there some Float32 module? I cannot just place my float 32 into a float
> 64 because I need to get same behaviour on basic operations.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pierre Vittet
>
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