Machine bit representations

Ashley Yakeley ashley@semantic.org
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:55:28 -0700


At 2001-07-24 16:51, pachinko@magicaldesk.com wrote:

>Is it possible in Haskell to access the underlying machine bit 
>representation of a Float or Double value?

If you mean the _actual_ bit representation, then I hope not! But maybe 
there should be (or are) functions for converting such values to 
_standard_ platform-independent bit representations...


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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA