but in C (32bits) floats are 4 bytes, so when you do:
ByteArray new
floatAt: 1 put: somePharoFloat;
it will cast it to 4 bytes (if it fits which is most of the cases).
but as I said… it is an error I need to fix :)
Esteban
> On 12 Feb 2016, at 20:50, Clément Bera <bera.clem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't understand. All BoxedFloat have 8 bytes, that's why they are called
> BoxedFloat64. There are no 4-bytes floats in Pharo. Even in 32 bits.
>
> 2016-02-12 18:06 GMT+01:00 Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com
> <mailto:esteba...@gmail.com>>:
>
>> On 12 Feb 2016, at 17:50, Aliaksei Syrel <alex.sy...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:alex.sy...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:esteba...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Float>>#pointer
>> ^ (ByteArray new: FFIExternalType pointerSize)
>> floatAt: 1 put: self;
>> yourself
>>
>> Yes it does the trick :) Thanks!
>
> yes and no (I made a mistake): that works because incidentally pointers and
> floats have same size (4 bytes)… but can happen that it is not (doubles have
> 8 bytes)… but is ok for now :)
> I will fix it correctly next week.
>
> Esteban
>
