fread documentation (patch)
Teemu Ikonen <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:01:12 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.octave.sources |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, Attached is a documentation patch to fread, which adds unsigned integer types to the list of supported formats. A quick look at the sources reveals that reading 64-bit integers is only supported if SIZEOF(long) == 64 in the architecture in question. In i386 I this is obviously not the case and I get: > a = fread(fid, "int64"); error: unable to find matching native data type for int64 error: fread: invalid data type specified A 64-bit int should fit nicely into a 64-bit double (although it loses information), so this architecture dependent limitation is kind of arbitrary. Perhaps there's not an easy fix to this problem? Best wishes, Teemu
file-io.cc.patch
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--- orig/octave/src/file-io.cc +++ mod/octave/src/file-io.cc @@ -1181,6 +1181,7 @@ \n\ @item \"unsigned char\"\n\ @itemx \"uchar\"\n\ +@itemx \"uint8\"\n\ Unsigned character.\n\ \n\ @item \"short\"\n\ @@ -1216,11 +1217,17 @@ \n\ @item \"integer*2\"\n\ @itemx \"int16\"\n\ -Two byte integer.\n\ +Two byte signed integer.\n\ \n\ @item \"integer*4\"\n\ @itemx \"int32\"\n\ -Four byte integer.\n\ +Four byte signed integer.\n\ +\n\ +@item \"uint16\"\n\ +Two byte unsigned integer.\n\ +\n\ +@item \"uint32\"\n\ +Four byte unsigned integer.\n\ @end table\n\ \n\ @noindent\n\