Re: [9fans] fun and scary evil C code

I lied.
They're actually using that stuff to pick apart the (presumed IEEE 754)
doubles into exponent, mantissa, ...

My questions still stand ...

Also, that file is such a tangled nest of ifdefs ...
is anyone sure whether (and if so, when) that code is invoked?

interesting conflicts on the web. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754
says c doesn't require ieee, http://home.datacomm.ch/t_wolf/tw/c/c9x_changes.html point #21.
says it does.

in any event, if ieee is used, i think the trick is safe.

- erik
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