[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible in Haskell to access the underlying machine bit representation of a
>Float or Double value?
>
> I need to be able to be able to send this bit representation as a list of bytes in
>network byte order to a process running on a different platform (with a different
>host byte order to my platform).
>
> For reference, I run Haskell under Linux on Intel. The processes I want to
>communicate with run under Sun Solaris, Hitachi HPUX and Java everywhere.
>
> Any suggestions, for any Haskell translator much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
Look at encodeFloat and decodeFloat, documented in section 6.4.6 of The
Haskell 98 Report. They offer "efficient, machine-independent access to
the components of a floating-point number".
See http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/basic.html#sect6.4.6
Matt Harden
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