luj@delta.ecn.purdue.edu (Jun Lu) (11/27/90)
I posted the query to comp.unix.questions. I thought that the question may boil down to the reprsentation of floating point numbers :-( and I like to hear the comments from the C-gurus. Follow up to comp.unix.questions. ---------- Is there a quick/neat way to passing floats in inet socket-based IPC, just like we "routinely" do for passing ints on "popular" architectures( with just some hton or ntoh conversions) ? The two processes, as indicated by "inet", may run on two different plateforms. One very portable and safe way for passing floats is, as I can see, is to convert floats to ascii representations before sending them across the network and on the other end convert the ascii strings back to floats. But the disadvantages are that this consumes more message space than necessary and also incurs the overhead of converisons between ascii and floats. Are there any better alternatives ? Thanks for any info/pointers in advance. -- -- Jun Lu Internet:luj@ecn.purdue.edu -- -- Aeronautics & Astronautics Bitnet: luj%ecn.purdue.edu@purccvm -- -- Purdue University UUCP: pur-ee!luj -- -- W. Lafayette, IN 47907 Phone:317-494-9410 Fax:317-494-0307 --