Re: ARGH. Who wrote intrinsic_set_exponent.f90?

[Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 09:18:33PM +0200, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> 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).
> 

Your parenthetical comment is why it may not be portable.
Anyway, here's a conforming example.

program test
   real x, y
   integer n
   integer :: j = 8388607  ! i = o'00037777777'
   n = 128
   x = transfer(j,x)
   y = set_exponent (x, n)
   if (exponent (y) .ne. n) call abort()
end program test



-- 
Steve