gcc321 and doubles and c++

[Nathan Sidwell]

Chris Croswhite wrote:
> How are doubles represented in memory under c++?  The reason I ask, is that
> I need to get  the value of a double striped of the mantissa and then split
> into two 32 bit words inorder to perform bitwise operations on the
> individual parts (as bitwise operations only work up to long ints).  BTW, I
> am tweaking for better math performance.
It uses the underlying hardware representation.

nathan
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