[LLVMdev] decimal to floating point conversion

aparna kotha kotha.aparna at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 17:46:56 PDT 2009


Thanks. Should work for me

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Frits van Bommel <fvbommel at wxs.nl> wrote:

> 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?
>
> I think you're looking for "bitcast i32 1110794174 to float"
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