[LLVMdev] decimal to floating point conversion

[Dale Johannesen]

On Mar 18, 2009, at 12:18 PMPDT, aparna kotha wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I need an instruction that can convert decimal values into floating  
> point numbers.
>
> i.e. say I have a decimal number 1110794174 (== 42355FBE in hex )  
> and  (== 45.3435 as a float)
>
> essentially the mantissa and exponent representation needs to be used.
>
> Is there any way of doing  this in llvm?

Not entirely sure what you're after, but if you want to interpret the  
bits of the int as floating point, use bitcast.