Convert to/from a string using scientific notation and send as a string.
Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Claudio Tagliola
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [OT] Floating point formats
>
>
> Hello all,
>
>
> I have a problem which doesn't belong here but I'm still turning to the
> piclist 'cause I know I can find a lot of skilled ppl here, who maybe can
> solve my problem.
>
> I'm working on an 186 AMD based micro. This this is programmed in Borland
> C++ 5. The problem I have is with floating points. As this this
> doesn't have
> a fp processor onboard, I'm using Borlands fp emulation library (emu.lib).
> What I am trying to do is send a 32 bit float value over a certain
> connection, byte for byte. However, If I put them all together
> again on the
> other side and hope to get the same float back, I am mistaken.
> Therefore, I
> came to the conclusion the emu.lib uses a non standard (i.e. IEEE754), fp
> format. And I am at a loss which one that should be. Extensive
> googling only
> gave me a bunch of unreadable pages and highly arcane info.
>
> Any ideas for this one?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Claudio Tagliola
>
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