Bruno Wolff III wrote:
Having a way to get the binary storage representation for float numbers would be good and would suffice within the same float number standard.On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 23:19:05 +0100, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:There isn't a way right now, but it's planned to be able to dump floating-point numbers in some binary form (like printf("%A")) to be able to restore them exactly. Not sure how that would satisfy the needs of client interfaces, though.Why not print it as a floating binary number instead of a floating decimal number? I would think that would give you better portability than a system specific binary representation.
Thanks,
Pedro M. Ferreira
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