Re: [Linux-decnet-user] librms + vax floating point

[Stanley F. Q. <sys...@st...>]

There are lots of different float formats on VMS systems.  The VAX 
platform can only do VAX floats.  The Itanium platform can only do 
IEEE floats.  The Alpha platform swings both ways.  ;-)

The smallest VAX float is F float, which is 32 bits.  If that's the 
one you're trying to read, I have a bit-swizzle technique for 
converting them.

The VMS FAQ:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/faq/openvms_faq.html?jumpid=/go/openvms/faq

recommends seeing:

http://www.hhs.dk/anonymous/pub/vms/collection/ieee.zip

The FAQ discusses the floating-point formats in detail, section 
14.10.  There's enough details to make conversion routines.

--Stan Quayle
Quayle Consulting Inc.

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