Floating-Point Filter Primitives

The XDR library provides primitives that translate between floating-point data and their external representations.

Floating-point data encodes an integer with an exponent. Floats and double-precision numbers compose floating-point data.

Note: Numbers are represented as IEEE standard floating points. Subroutines may fail when decoding IEEE representations into machine-specific representations, or vice versa.

The subroutines for the XDR floating-point filters are:

Item Description
xdr_double Translates between C language double-precision numbers and their external representations.
xdr_float Translates between C language floats and their external representations.