On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 3:42:57 PM UTC+10, Uliano Guerrini wrote: > > Thanks to the pointers given I dug a little bit under the hood ad found > the promising unbox intrinsic function. It would exactly be what I was > looking for but it seems to work only one way: > > *julia> **using Base.Intrinsics* > > > *julia> **theFloat=1.0* > > *1.0* > > > *julia> **b=unbox(Int64,theFloat)* > > *4607182418800017408* > > > *julia> **bits(theFloat)* > > *"0011111111110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"* > > > *julia> **type Words2x32* > > * lo::Int32* > > * hi::Int32* > > * end* > > > *julia> **c=Words2x32(0,1072693248)* > > *Words2x32(0,1072693248)* > > > *julia> **d=unbox(Float64,c)* > > *1.0* > > > *julia> **bits(d)* > > *"0011111111110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"* > > > *julia> **e=unbox(Words2x32,d)* > > *Segmentation fault: 11* > > > *Is it a bug or I have used the function in an unexpected way?* >
You can't unbox an already unboxed object. Cheers Lex
