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Re: ARGH. Who wrote intrinsic_set_exponent.f90?

From: Thomas Koenig <Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de>
To: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
Cc: Feng Wang <wf_cs at yahoo dot com>, fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:18:33 +0200
Subject: Re: ARGH. Who wrote intrinsic_set_exponent.f90?
References: <20060828143329.17295.qmail@web15604.mail.cnb.yahoo.com> <20060828155724.GA60643@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:57:24AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
>but you should be able to do
> 
>     i = 2345613
>     x = tansfer(i,x)
> 
> to get the bit pattern you want (although this isn't portable
> because of endian issues).

It should work, because both integers and reals share the
same endianness (at least on the "usual" IEEE systems).

	Thomas

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