Re: Soft float support and casting

[Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>]

Simon Kagstrom wrote:

> I've looked in libgcc2.c and am unfortunately a bit unsure about how
> to get GCC to directly cast an integer value to a float type. For
> example, I would like to do something like this:
>
>    float __floatsisf(long i)
>    {
>        return (float)0x40c00000; /* float value 6.0 */
>    }
>
> but the cast will of course turn this into some completely different
> number. Can someone quickly explain how to do this?

Use a union:

union { float f; unsigned int i; } u;

float __floatsisf(long i)
{
   u.i = 0x40c00000;
   return u.f;
}


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