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Re: [Patch libfortran/28452] random intrinsics for large reals

From: Thomas Koenig <Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de>
To: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
Cc: Thomas Koenig <Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de>, fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:28:20 +0200
Subject: Re: [Patch libfortran/28452] random intrinsics for large reals
References: <20060727204649.GA17966@meiner.onlinehome.de> <20060728054425.GA5780@meiner.onlinehome.de> <20060728055304.GB17252@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:53:04PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:

> One thing I want meant to ask earlier concerns the masking.
> For example with the real(4), you grab 32-bit then mask off
> a small portion to give you the 24-bits.  Is this ok with
> both little and big endian hardware?

The masking is done with the unsigned int _values_, independent of
representation (which could be big-endian, little-endian or NUXI).
After that, the unsigned value is converted to real(4).

Regards
	Thomas

References:
- [Patch libfortran/28452] random intrinsics for large reals
  - From: Thomas Koenig
- Re: [Patch libfortran/28452] random intrinsics for large reals
  - From: Thomas Koenig
- Re: [Patch libfortran/28452] random intrinsics for large reals
  - From: Steve Kargl

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