[Openmcl-devel] Printing/Reading floats

[Christophe Rhodes]

Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com> writes:

> I can't think of a more portable way to read/write floats in CL: if
> there's a CL function that does the inverse of INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT,
> I can't remember what it's called.
>
> ? (multiple-value-call #'hypothetical-integer-encode-float
>      (integer-decode-float f))
>
> would (hypothetically) be guaranteed to be EQL to f (at least for
> normalized cases) and the integer triples could be read/written
> accurately.

IANAFPExpert, but would

(defun hypothetical-integer-encode-float (sig exp sign)
  (float (* sign (/ sig (expt 2 exp)))))

be close?  Obviously there are issues wrt single/doubleness, but...

Cheers,

Christophe  
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